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California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] alakey@piefed.social 165 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

See you in a year or 2.

Play as old as times:

  1. Company announces garbage change
  2. People freak out
  3. Company says ok we will only do half of the garbage
  4. People calm down and forget
  5. Company later does the rest of the garbage
  6. Nobody cares because half of it is already there
[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 3 points 36 minutes ago

I mean it makes total sense the minute you think about it at all.

  • some middle managers year end goals include this unpalatable feature
  • they release it
  • public freaks out
  • pr walks it back a bit
  • that managers back at work the week after trying to get that feature in because they need to justify the work they just did on it for better compensation

It's the same with laws.

It's very hard to get the electorate united to oppose something but if they manage to unite and oppose a bill the lobbyists are back at work on Monday pushing it by a different name.

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 90 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Foot in the door technique is a timeless way to get what you want. People seem oblivious to it.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I hear frogs experience the same phenomenon with hot water.

[–] new_guy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Actually they only stay in the boiling water if their nervous system is impaired

[–] xylol@leminal.space 6 points 2 hours ago

Good thing humans dont have nervous systems

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago

Also works the other way around.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago

100% Microslop.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Are you implying that CA regulators do exactly what disgusting corporations do?!? I am shocked sir!