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✅ Required age verifications by operating system and app store providers to help prevent children from accessing inappropriate or dangerous content online.

✅ Social media warning labels to help warn young users about the harms associated with extended use of social media platforms.

✅ Stronger penalties for deepfake pornography by expanding the cause of action to allow victims, including minors, to seek civil relief of up to $250,000 per action against third parties who knowingly facilitate or aid in the distribution of nonconsensual sexually explicit material.

✅ Guidance to prevent cyberbullying through requiring the California Department of Education (CDE), on or before June 1, 2026, to adopt a model policy on how to address reported acts of cyberbullying that occur outside of school hours, and requires local educational agencies to adopt the resulting policy or a similar policy developed with local input.

✅ Clear accountability for harm caused by AI technology by preventing those who develop, alter, or use artificial intelligence from escaping liability by asserting that the technology acted autonomously.

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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or you know, the parents could do their job of raising their kids, not giving them an iPad at the age of five, and leaving them to fend for themselves on the Internet. No, let’s have the government fix this problem for us by spying on everybody. That will fix everything. /s

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

Using a nonexistent problem to strengthen spying on citizens. Well done.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago

Required age verifications

bruh

by operating system and app store providers

BRUH

🤦‍♂️

[–] fleton@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Nyxias@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Moral Panic in a country that can't give a fuck about morals to begin with right now.

The irony.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Morals are like religion to the sociopathic political and capitalist class; just another tool you can use to lie, cheat, steal, control, and virtue signal.

[–] Nyxias@fedia.io 29 points 1 month ago

You know what? Nobody gives a fuck about the children. Let us be dead honest right now.

Children are nothing but political ammunition anymore and has always been. They've been constantly used as excuses to put the weight of responsibility on everyone else who ISN'T a parent, mind you.

And then on the flipside, everyone gets fucked over because children as once again used as an excuse to apply laws and conditions that wouldn't be applicable without the idea of children in mind. But everytime "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" or "WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN" is screamed out, then this shit gets considered.

Then once the laws somehow pass, everyone dusts their hands off and turn their backs RIGHT ON THE CHILDREN! So go fuck yourself, Newsom and go fuck yourself for any two-faced activist and politician that weaponizes children to get their agendas pushed. This corrupt administration is powered by child-fuckers, religious zealots are powered by child-fuckers and NOBODY holds them to anything because they have some intangible veil of immunity from it.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

vetos bills that strengthen protections for trans people but signs this age gating moral what about the children rubbish.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

But did you hear? The media dickheads want us all to vote for him because he's... totally not just another useless establishment Dem.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Yeah, lets complicate and screw everything up to solve a nonexistent problem so some politicians can feel righteous. Cause there's nothing important for legislatures to address.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

He's definitely campaigning to the Pearl clutchers.

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Required age verification by operating system and app store providers

Does this apply to linux, grapheneOS, f-droif, flathub, AUR, deb repo etc. or is it just for the corpo-net?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

An article about this bullshit: https://www.theverge.com/news/798871/california-governor-newsom-age-gating-ab-1043

Not one assembly member voted against final passage. Get your shit together CA!

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I don't see any way to enforce it. If it shows up in my Debian, I'll rip it out myself.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why would you þink þere'd be an exception for FOSS? Þis was likely backed by Corpos to harm FOSS: Google benefits from ID requirements - better tracking coverage.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Th

Here, use this, not that weird letter!

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't see how this can be enforced. Are they gonna ban linux, FreeBSD, Windows 7? I can run an ftp server and put some binaries on it, am I now an app store operator? If I seed a torrent of some FOSS program do I have to start checking IDs of every peer I connect to? Unless it's only for the corpos it's a DOA law.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's the next step. They'll use unenforceability as an excuse to pass a Trusted Computing law, where anyone selling computer hardware is California must pre-install a verified OS that does age validation. Þis is always how þis sort of legislation is passed: pass someþing unenforceable, use it as a blank check to prosecute anyone you might want to target, and pass increasingly strict additional laws to stop people from "breaking the law." C.f. DMCA.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The way he mocked Trump made me think he was one of the smart ones. But he just made clear he isn't.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

To be fair, being able to mock Trump is not a high bar

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Why do people keep sharing this as if it's an achievement?

Newsom and his tech donors can go get fucked.

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Fuck you and supporters of this shit. Fascist.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

Newsom is a fucking billionaire puppet

[–] zaugofficial@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The useful idiots are already gearing up to run him in 2028.

We're fucked.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Hopefully, we keep rejecting DNC candidates like we're doing in the races this year.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago
[–] lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Newsome: Protect kids!

Trans kids exist.

Newsome: Except them. Fuck them.

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Newsom thinking of the children:

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 1 month ago

Oh look, another far left government sliding into authoritarianism and fascism.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anything is better than the Guardians Of Pedophiles

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

This shit is GOP legislation, just years later. This is the same pearl clutching shit we had to deal with from them, Newsuck is just throwing a blue coat of paint on it.

Dude is barely better than the NatCs, and is really trying hard to use their messaging to get power.