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

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Archr@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Yea they have to ask for your age bracket. That’s not the same as an ID.

I agree, the definition of an application is much too broad. And should be revised. But the difficulty is how do you restrict it without also creating a multitude of loopholes for businesses to exploit. At the very least we should restrict it to applications whose primary purpose is to interact with the internet.

And before you say it, yes I am aware that that still leaves many apps like curl, wget, ssh being covered. But it could be a start.

Or maybe just restrict it to social media applications. I am not a lawyer, I definitely don’t have a great grasp of how to create the type of language that is appropriate for laws.

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