microslop and or palintir stink all over this, mroe than likely its the latter.
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You guys are asking the wrong questions.
How is Linux going to do this? There's no server for the os to send the information to report the age of its users, no way of forcing its user base to comply and no single person or entity to fine, arrest or otherwise force into compliance.
They made a law they cannot enforce.
From what I understood, it's a requirement for a local API (for apps to use) and could be implemented during user creation.
It will be a slippery slope and IANAL, just my interpretation.
Our president is fucking children, and you're telling me I gotta verify my date of birth to run Linux, in the name of "Protecting the Children"?
Get the fuck outta here.
You're antifa if you run Linux anyway.
I would like to think I'm antifa no matter what I run.
How the hell are they going to enforce this?
Basically, it'll become a crime to sell a computer with a pre-installed operating system unless it supports an age assurance system.
You make it sounds like a good thing; people will wont have microslops os by default.. they may pick loonix!!! (this comment is brought to you by me)
Wait im dumb miceoslip WILL HAVE AGE ASSURANCE!!! GET out everyone will you can
My birthday is 01.01.0001
01.01.1970
The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require "commercially reasonable" verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks.
What even is the point of this then? To make shitty parents feel better?
Move towards removing anonymity on the internet.
It's so next year when they expand the requirements the infrastructure is already in place.
Sell data. profile people more accurately.
The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require "commercially reasonable" verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks.
I hate Newsom but this seems like a non-issue.
If it was a non-issue they wouldn't introduce this to begin with.
There's not a single good reason to why an OS would ever need to know someone's age.
One of the proposed ideas in a Discord-based thread was to use OS-level age authentication to prevent you from having to provide IDs to a thousand other parties. One place, one time. So that's one reason for an OS to need it, in a world hellbent on increasing age restrictions. I don't know enough about that idea to argue it, though I'm certain it could be spoofed in 0.2 seconds after release.
It sounded like the EU solution is a dedicated, non-identifying birth date tag in their passports.
But what do I know. I assume all age restrictions can be circumvented, so I see no point in all this theater. And it's theater because it never really seems to truly be about protecting children. At least, to me, I'd be more concerned about SFW manosphere bullshit than NSFW porn when it comes to protecting kids (yes, I'm well aware a great deal of porn is misogynistic, degrading, abusive, etc)
Man, it's so weird to think about misogynistic/degrading/abusive porn existing. I'm used to furry porn which, generally, is much more positive "yay let's do [insert rule 34 of literally anything you could possibly think of] and have a great time!" type stuff.
-- Frost
But you can just lie lol
That's what I always did as a kid. Maybe some good reasons not to do that, but that's still the reality of it.
it established a bad precedent
So far...
Thin end of the wedge. Authoritarianism and fascism comes little by little.
It’s a muddy slope. Watch your step.
This feels like a non issue.
"Age verification" is a big umbrella.
Claiming that merely checking an entered birth date is the equivalent of uploading an ID is disingenuous and just fishing for clicks.
Yes, there are tangible connections to other concerning privacy violations in this space... but come on. Steam asks you for your birth date before you watch an R18+ game trailer. I've been lying on that form for over twenty years, since before I was 18.
Getting upset over this feels like the beginning of getting your panties twisted over everything. "Oh no, someone pressed a button on a keyboard, that's how nukes are fired!"
Yes but Newsom says funny things about bad orange man, so he's got my vote.
OK Newsom, you've lost me. I enjoyed your chaotic responses to the drumpf but you've officially lost me.
He's not even making most of those responses to Trump. His social media manager is doing it. He's still just another Howard Schultz. "I like the idea of equality as long as rich people don't have to reduce the rate at which they become richer."
Yikes
Realize, this has always been him. He is NOT a liberal. He is a conservative who calls himself a democrat.
That's called a liberal.
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Its parents that are pushing for this stupid shit. I hate that the majority of voters want to implement robust age verification.
Is it? Honestly I think it's just astroturfed. The entire imperial core suddenly got obsessed with regulating the internet after young people started waking up to the realities of the genocide in gaza.
Parents who view their kids as property
it's horrible
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