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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)

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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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[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

"Age verifications" AKA "A complete ID and access record of all that you do on your personal electronics." This is some seriously dystopian surveillance and control shit and it has nothing at all to do with children.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago

WTF! Okay fuck that guy too. Now it AOC only and Bernie.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago

seems like MS lobbying group.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

I didn't see this one coming.

I am very very angry.

If the trump admin kills this piece of shit in public, I will report to the death camps as my civic duty.

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[–] Zeon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

The whole point of the GNU/Linux operating system is for free speech. Whatever you're trying to do California, it's not going to happen. I refuse to run any proprietary software on my machines. It's astounding that any porch for freedom is just gets blindly attacked by a bunch of uneducated fools. What a boring dystopia we live in...

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

What is the point of bucketizing the actual age when anything querying it can simply note the date at which the user shifts to the next bucket to determine the exact birth date even if it never sees the exact birth date?

Furthermore, what about a common login like on a media PC?

What about a Steam Deck that gets shared around a household?

This is all very dumb. Could be a lot worse but it's still very dumb.

[–] sudolinuxjunkie69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Computer code is a form of speech. It is mind-boggling to me that California wants to assert its rules over all FOSS software.

If California is able to do this, what stops them from next requiring Arch to be bundled with ID-checking Persona as part of a mandatory GUI installation?

Maybe Arkansas wants a mandatory "governemnt module" in Fedora to allow easy remote access?

Perhaps Dubai would like ProxMox to ping Dubai's government so they can create an IP registry of ProxMox users?

And since so many developers use github, will github just ban developers who don't comply?

I understand that such a rule could undermine Project 2025's objectives, but it is still a slippery slope.

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