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California passes law requiring age verification checks for all operating systems | Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online (www.gov.ca.gov)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

Edit: altered title from "ID check" to "Age Verification check"

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 105 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (24 children)

Et tu, California with Democratic majority in both chambers? Fucking disgraceful.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Well, we as a state voted to ban flavored tobacco products when like 10 kids were getting popcorn lung from black market THC oil carts.

And selling tobacco to minors here is highly illegal, as it should be. So I never understood why we banned flavored tobacco, when the kids were getting issues from black market THC carts, which they also shouldn't have been sold/using.

Not even getting into how the law didn't stop flavored alcohol, we can still buy bubblegum flavored vodka here.

So even in the 2nd most Democrat leaning state, we still push for the dumbest laws. This was a state wide vote, not something the Senate/Assembly voted on.

[–] miked@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Flavored tobacco used to only target minorities so it was OK. There are documentaries about this showing how much more flavored tobacco was advertised in lower socio-economic areas.

Once children started vaping the CA govt stepped in.

If you oppose the ban I have to assume because you don't know where to get menthol cigs anymore. I live in Oakland and can still find Newports. I quite smoking them over 25 years ago but know more than one place that sells them.

edit - this thread is about age verification. not sure why you think tobacco bans are remotely close.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

you oppose the ban I have to assume because you don’t know where to get menthol cigs anymore. I live in Oakland and can still find Newports. I quite smoking them over 25 years ago but know more than one place that sells them.

I don't smoke period so I don't mind it. I found the reasoning banning it was stupid, because the boomer voting base didn't understand the reason for the Prop being drawn up.

this thread is about age verification. not sure why you think tobacco bans are remotely close.

Talking about a dumb law being passed, so I talked about a dumb law being passed. I said that a state of Democrat voters and Democrat Assembly members doesn't mean they always pass the best/logical bills. Better than if the state was ran by Republicans, but so is every state.

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