It’s just a simple DoB input, which can be local afaik
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No doubt in response to Europe making its choice for software open source. Expect targeted attacks on FOSS to increase
You guys are asking the wrong questions.
How is Linux going to do this? There's no server for the os to send the information to report the age of its users, no way of forcing its user base to comply and no single person or entity to fine, arrest or otherwise force into compliance.
They made a law they cannot enforce.
Which is why we all should aspire to join linux, and reject newsome and other greasy california politicians cynically playing us for the billionaires.
From what I understood, it's a requirement for a local API (for apps to use) and could be implemented during user creation.
It will be a slippery slope and IANAL, just my interpretation.
microslop and or palintir stink all over this, mroe than likely its the latter.
Our president is fucking children, and you're telling me I gotta verify my date of birth to run Linux, in the name of "Protecting the Children"?
Get the fuck outta here.
You're antifa if you run Linux anyway.
What are you if you run Mac Os then? Dyslexic Autistic Vegan Attack Helicopter.
I would like to think I'm antifa no matter what I run.
How the hell are they going to enforce this?
Basically, it'll become a crime to sell a computer with a pre-installed operating system unless it supports an age assurance system.
You make it sounds like a good thing; people will wont have microslops os by default.. they may pick loonix!!! (this comment is brought to you by me)
Wait im dumb miceoslip WILL HAVE AGE ASSURANCE!!! GET out everyone will you can
My birthday is 01.01.0001
01.01.1970
The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require "commercially reasonable" verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks.
I hate Newsom but this seems like a non-issue.
If it was a non-issue they wouldn't introduce this to begin with.
There's not a single good reason to why an OS would ever need to know someone's age.
One of the proposed ideas in a Discord-based thread was to use OS-level age authentication to prevent you from having to provide IDs to a thousand other parties. One place, one time. So that's one reason for an OS to need it, in a world hellbent on increasing age restrictions. I don't know enough about that idea to argue it, though I'm certain it could be spoofed in 0.2 seconds after release.
It sounded like the EU solution is a dedicated, non-identifying birth date tag in their passports.
But what do I know. I assume all age restrictions can be circumvented, so I see no point in all this theater. And it's theater because it never really seems to truly be about protecting children. At least, to me, I'd be more concerned about SFW manosphere bullshit than NSFW porn when it comes to protecting kids (yes, I'm well aware a great deal of porn is misogynistic, degrading, abusive, etc)
Man, it's so weird to think about misogynistic/degrading/abusive porn existing. I'm used to furry porn which, generally, is much more positive "yay let's do [insert rule 34 of literally anything you could possibly think of] and have a great time!" type stuff.
-- Frost
But you can just lie lol
That's what I always did as a kid. Maybe some good reasons not to do that, but that's still the reality of it.
it established a bad precedent
Thin end of the wedge. Authoritarianism and fascism comes little by little.
So far...
It’s a muddy slope. Watch your step.
The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require "commercially reasonable" verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks.
What even is the point of this then? To make shitty parents feel better?
The point of it is actually the exact opposite. With this law the parent would set the age of their child. And if they decide to lie and their child is affected then they could be fined.
The other thing it does is if a platform decides to ignore the age range of a user and it affects a child then they could be fined. But as long as they do best effort then it really only affects the parents.
It also prevent platforms from requesting additional ID verification unless they have confidence that the age bracket of that user is incorrect.
Move towards removing anonymity on the internet.
It's so next year when they expand the requirements the infrastructure is already in place.
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Yes but Newsom says funny things about bad orange man, so he's got my vote.
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