An article about this bullshit: theverge.com/…/california-governor-newsom-age-gat…
Not one assembly member voted against final passage. Get your shit together CA!
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Required age verification by operating system and app store providers
Does this apply to linux, grapheneOS, f-droif, flathub, AUR, deb repo etc. or is it just for the corpo-net?
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sxan@piefed.zip 5 months ago
Why would you think there’d be an exception for FOSS? Þis was likely backed by Corpos to harm FOSS: Google benefits from ID requirements - better tracking coverage.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I don’t see how this can be enforced. Are they gonna ban linux, FreeBSD, Windows 7? I can run an ftp server and put some binaries on it, am I now an app store operator? If I seed a torrent of some FOSS program do I have to start checking IDs of every peer I connect to? Unless it’s only for the corpos it’s a DOA law.
Sxan@piefed.zip 5 months ago
That’s the next step. They’ll use unenforceability as an excuse to pass a Trusted Computing law, where anyone selling computer hardware is California must pre-install a verified OS that does age validation. Þis is always how this sort of legislation is passed: pass something unenforceable, use it as a blank check to prosecute anyone you might want to target, and pass increasingly strict additional laws to stop people from “breaking the law.”
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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Here, use this, not that weird letter!
Geodad@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t see any way to enforce it. If it shows up in my Debian, I’ll rip it out myself.