Technology

I was born in January 1st 1970, more credible and symbolic.

Shockingly, 2000-01-01 suffices.

Or to put it more bone crumblingly:
There's no need to go back into the last millennium.

I thought we were born April 20th, 1969

I love the definitions section... So, first it defines the 4 age brackets a user can be: Under 13, 13-16, 16-18, or over 18. Then they define "Child" as anyone under 18. Then, and this is where it gets good, they define a "User" as a "Child". So by these definitions, no one can be considered a user if they are over 18. (which, then, why is there an "over 18" age bracket defined earlier??)

Not only do these people not seem to understand technology, they also don't understand that people over 18 use technology, or maybe exist?

It's hard enough trying to get Linux adoption in schools and businesses. This law makes it an additional liability.

Administrators of FOSS systems will be considered OS Providers under this law, and will be liable at $2000 to $7500 for every child they expose to a non-compliant OS.

Those few schools that have adopted Linux will be forced to switch to M$ and Google products.

This is just another charge to add when someone is accused of a crime involving computers. It doesn't have to be a computer related crime but just be part of their property.

because he is a conservative dumbfucking cunt.

judge: the jury finds the defendant guilty of 9 counts of child negligence, and will serve 5 months in prison with a fine of $10,000 in damages.

prisoner: what you here for? what did you do?

father: I allowed my child to create his own account on Debian Trixie 13.3 with KDE Plasma interface.

prisoner: chuckles

This is what happens when boomers never die and stay in office for a lifetime. They don’t understand technology but are allowed to make the laws that govern their use.

Does anyone actually know what the fuck we are doing here?

Obviously not, no.

You're a sysadmin... you should know this.

You're the person who has to actually think through the results of other people's decisions.

That's your job, lol.

Other people get paid to make decisions, not think about them.

The law was designed this way specifically so that people won’t fight it as hard because it doesn’t provide any verification requirements. That bill would come later once the outrage over this has waned and the age gating becomes normalized in the local culture so that people just shrug off the verification requirement in the future.

They’re not wasting any time or money, they're just playing the long game.

My guess would be these OS's just wont do it and stop doing business in that state.

Lucky for you, you can just download them anyway.

My guess is also that these lawmakers dont care nor considered other OS's than Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android.

Believe it or not, straight to jail