Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal). The bill states, among other factors, that “An operating system provider shall do all of the following:”
"(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
“(2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user.”
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California has for as long as I can remember had this weird unique brand of liberal authoritarianism. I’m so glad I left.
The pedophile elite demands your age for your safety.
Amazing how there is no good reason not to move US companies to Canada now
There is still Delaware
Sounds like a good time for a roll-your-own distro kit based on the Linux kernel.
Kinda excited for my Linux distro to be illegal. I read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow as a kid and it left a big impact
This OS causes cancer in the state of california
- Mint probably
On its face, this seems actually fine. All it’s REALLY mandating is that apps have a way to ask if the user is an adult or not. The burden of trust is placed on whoever sets up the OS, I.E. the parent, which is EXACTLY where it should be. No burden is placed on adults setting up usage for themselves. It’s not even much of a privacy concern, given that setup doesn’t require specifying age, but a general age bracket.
We’ll have to see how this ends up getting implemented.
Yeah, it literally says nothing about the method of verification or its reliability
What the fuck is up with the ruling class’s push on age verification on everything the past year? Does anyone actually know what the deal is?
My brain goes to the theory that they want to create undodgable ways to surveil everyone after the Luigi incident so everyone’s ID (and photo) is on record, making them easier to track - I trust these people not storing identifiable information as much as I trust my phone to not be recording 24/7. The fact that Palantir has started to spread like mold in every industry with sizable information databases too.
They are having a bit of trouble with finding enough minors after Epstein didn’t kill himself.
I heard an angle the age verification laws in Australia were to stop competing legislation banning gambling ads. If they can arbitrarily say they’ve kicked kids off the internet they can justify still allowing more ads
Automated AI Surveillance to link users to everything they do online spearheaded by Palantir and Israel.
Exactly this. This is from palantir source code
Probably, another angle I’ve thought about is having your browsing history on file for potential arrest and or future blackmail if you become someone important.
late to work again because my toaster wont sign in without my yubi key and the touch controls are all greasy
Tagline please
you joke but i bet if you polled every IT Guy in California they’d probably overwhelmingly recommend every household appliance should require 2FA and will drive out to the drone-strike trailer to target you if, as a homeowner, use your Feitan for your toaster 2FA instead of creating a ticket to request a yubikey from the government like you’re supposed to
Pcgamer citing lunduke is cringe, literally the worst person you know and not an expert on anything.
This law is so unenforceable you could just call it anarcho capitalism. I can’t wait for Californian liberals to enter the “Is it GNU, is it Linux or GNU/Linux/systemd/gnome|kde/Firefox” flamewars.
Lookin forward to scrolling past the CA-compliant linux isos, lmao
CIA-compliant
No need to do (1) if there’s no “account setup”
Can’t wait for California Tech bros to cry when they tank their state’s econony.
I need to find that picture of the tech bros looking like apes crying about their NFT’s or whatever that silly fad was.
That’s the one! 😄 Is that an official hexbear emoji now?
Has been for a few years, you can tell because it’s an AI image from back when those were seen as just kinda funny and not an affront to all life.
Fair. In their defense they can still be generated cheaply locally by open source programs like stable diffusion, there’s just a slight quality downgrade. I’m given to understand that the real environmental damage is in the training, but open source initiatives greatly reduce that (done once, free for all).
bool is_adult() { return true; }linux is 18 and older, so we’re covered
GNU is 40 and older.
