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California's age verification law is proving controversial — here's what you need to know, and why some Linux distros are in the firing line (www.techradar.com)

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works -2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (18 children)

I’m going to be the contrarian here and say the bill is… good? It seems sensibly lax: The OS is required to ask for age, without external proof or requirement to share, and then provide apps who request it an interface to verify your answer.

I think taking the responsibility to verify age out of whichever dodgy data broker asks for it and unto the operating system itself, and ultimately the user if they lied, is a far better solution to the “problem” of age verification, which I don’t believe is going anywhere any time soon.

If you disagree please don’t be mean, I only just read the draft bill

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

the data brokers won't change. If they cared to they would already do this.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Very true, and now they won’t have the law on their side

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