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

atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Californian law only affects California.

  Individual OS vendors might decide to implement it in a way that affects other places as well, e.g. in the past, Valve decided they’d rather not implement age verification for Germany and just stopped selling all porn / super violent games in Germany. Maybe they’ll now implement it for Germany and California.

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  • atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Couldn’t they make it locationally dependent?

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    • threeganzi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Then they would need to know where you are as well.

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      • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s not an issue, IP addresses allow localization to some degree

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• PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably only Californians. Or at least IPs out of California.

  For example, PornHub (Canadian company) is completely open to be, being Canadian. But if my VPN puts me in a state that has banned porn (Virginia for example), the site don’t let me on.

  I’m sure it’s much like that. If you are in California or your IP is based out of it, the OS will require age verification, likely at startup.

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  • atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ah, I see. Not too worried about this then

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    • TotalCourage007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It only made sense to the clueless fuckhead politicans.

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