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Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems
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Can we please call it what it is: mandatory ID.
Yes please! The sooner we normalize that, the sooner these threads will stop being about people explaining idea nr. 26637372 how to implement parental controls. It's not about protecting children! That's just the marketing slogan!
afaik it's straight up the opposite for the california law. I didn't read it myself, but from what I read online about it, they require a boolean "adult/minor" and forbid any other data collection related to age