If a law passes and you’re running your IT infrastructure and not enforcing it then you have bigger problems.
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Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 6 hours agoWell yeah, right now it is optional.
What about when the law passes that says it’s required on a federal level (yes I’m talking about USA). They added this one in pretty quick, do you think they would fold and be like “nah we stand for the users!”
Or do you think they will build on what is already being added here?
webkitten@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
The bigger problem being the government with guns that makes you follow their surveillance laws?
Also most people don’t run IT infrastructure. Most people will not be able to escape this when it turns in to full blown surveillance.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This is why it’s so important to ensure that the USA continues its slide to irrevelance.
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
You are right because maybe then they would lose some money and that is the only thing the us government cares about.
So once you start disrupting that, maybe shit will get different. Idk though, I’m not very optimistic about most things tbh.
However its worth noting that, in the actual github commit one of the developers for system 76 said that they are in talks with legislators right now and that this may be overturned, not even apply to open source operating systems, etc.
And one of the maintainers said and I quote, “It is possible that California law will be changed. But similar ideas are popping up in other contexts and it’s unlikely that they’ll all go away. This implementation is fairly generic and useful for other things besides age verification, so we shouldn’t decide whether to merge it or not based on a single law in any jurisdiction.” -keszybz
So, it kind of seems like they have a rock hard erection to lick any pair of boots they can, not just the USA ones.