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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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