I want this bill dead not compromised.
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How about instead the parents decide? I can let me kid use the computer for as long or as little as I want. Cars have no age verification. Simply driving as a minor is not allowed. I get to train my kid to drive or go to driving school. Thus a computer simply needs me to be root and for I to establish my own control and destructions. If the law says you can't be on the internet as a minor, then fine I can restrict the internet access. Otherwise a computer is just a fancy calculator.
Isn’t that how the proposed law was going to work?
No, they want everyone, including the household admin to identify themselves. Might as well serve my balls fried on a silver platter to any scammer looking for a fun time.
Is this different from the California law? Do you support that one?
No shit finally good news
This just proves the entire bill is fucking stupid if they can do this.
This is good news. Better news would be dropping the bill, but at least this won't hurt FOSS.
I worry that if we get lots of diff jurisdictions with diff laws, it may be easiest for an OS to comply iwth the most strict of them.
Lax ones don't require age verification, but also don't forbid it. Strict ones require it. You can comply with both at once.
Maybe doesn't matter if you can easily bypass the age check. Which is true at the present time. But things like this, they often slip-slope into more KYC style of hard to get around. All it takes is a horrible event all over the headlines. If it "could have been stopped" with stricter measures, they'll come. Once you have a hammer, all problems are nails.
I would love to see a country go the other way and put IDs and biometric data in a special category where companies are either banned from collecting it or required to be held liable for damages if it's stolen or misused. It'll never happen though
How in the fuck can they restrict software download? This is impossible to do. This law is bullshit cloaking the fact that the technogarchs want this and are fully in control.
Europe won’t save us. Their leaders are either in on it or so fucking stupid they keep building moats for these software companies. All these European laws, and everything just gets worse. These companies are more powerful now, not less. Now they want your iris and to decide if you’re fit to drive your own car.
All under the guise of saving the children that they all want to record to figure out which ones to rape. Brought to you by the global billionaire class. A country isn’t doing this to anyone. That’s another distraction from the fucking class war. These billionaires are the globalists. They answer to no nation state. The only true sovereigns left. And they are clearly winning.
Europe won’t save us.
I agree. But that wasn't what I meant. I meant it in the other direction. That we may slowly get forced into more and more requirements to give a real world identity, to use the internet. Some nations are moving that way. Even if they aren't all the way there yet, they would love to.
Maybe it'll never get that far, I don't know. I agree big tech companies are more powerful now than ever. It's a huge damn problem.
How in the fuck can they restrict software download? This is impossible to do.
This is possible if the government continues its path
I worry that if we get lots of diff jurisdictions with diff laws, it may be easiest for an OS to comply iwth the most strict of them.
i used to work for an online gaming company and the rules that we applied for the europe were set by gdpr because they were the strictest at the time.
The amendment is here, page 6.
With the wording of "without restriction", the GPL could be arguably "too restrictive". Well, probably for a court to decide. I guess 9front is safe regardless...