Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

7101334@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

  source

  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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)

    source

    • forestbeasts@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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

      source

      • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        War is good for business?

        source
  • 7101334@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

    source

    • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It doesn’t matter. There’s no good reason to have it in an OS in the first place. It’s obviously a stepping stone to get infrastructure in place so they can expand it later.

      Let’s put it this way. Linux says no. We’re not gonna do that at a kernel level. Because there’s no way in hell that’s going through as long as Linus is alive.

      Then what? Is California going to ban Linux? Guess what all the data centers use for servers…

      I almost want them to do it, just to grab popcorn and enjoy the fallout.

      source
  • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep.

    Plenty bad reasons though.

    Mostly around abuse of the vulnerable, data-mining, advertising/marketing/psyops/publicrelations, pedophilia, pedovoria, disempowerment, indoctrination, dumbing-down, wealth extraction maximisation, profiling, voter suppression, gerrymandering, insurance scams, etc.

    Still struggling to conceive of even a single good reason…

    … So it helps us detect the crooked politicians who would vote for such a thing?

    source
  • 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait til you hear about the room numbers!

    source
• freedom@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s a muddy slope. Watch your step.

  source
• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  it established a bad precedent

  source
• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thin end of the wedge. Authoritarianism and fascism comes little by little.

  source
• hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A bad precedent. No concession! Fuck these nihlists! We have freedom of speech, and the supreme court and congress and the executive does not have the authority to take it from us. Fuck them.

  source
• fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So far…

  source