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Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online (www.gov.ca.gov)

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AB-1043 "Age verification signals: software applications and online services."

Text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Other info https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

California AB 1043 signed. Mandatory os-level, device-level, app store, and even developer-required age verification for all computing devices.

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Holy crap. As a consequence they're outlawing open source operating system, as you can easily recompile with the OS level age verification disabled.

Great idea to give politicians the tools for mass surveilance and censorship. At no point will a authoritarian get into political power and use these technologies for his own benefit.

Their egoism and dumbness drives these politicians to become terrible terrible evil people.