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✅ Required age verifications by operating system and app store providers to help prevent children from accessing inappropriate or dangerous content online.

✅ Social media warning labels to help warn young users about the harms associated with extended use of social media platforms.

✅ Stronger penalties for deepfake pornography by expanding the cause of action to allow victims, including minors, to seek civil relief of up to $250,000 per action against third parties who knowingly facilitate or aid in the distribution of nonconsensual sexually explicit material.

✅ Guidance to prevent cyberbullying through requiring the California Department of Education (CDE), on or before June 1, 2026, to adopt a model policy on how to address reported acts of cyberbullying that occur outside of school hours, and requires local educational agencies to adopt the resulting policy or a similar policy developed with local input.

✅ Clear accountability for harm caused by AI technology by preventing those who develop, alter, or use artificial intelligence from escaping liability by asserting that the technology acted autonomously.

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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or you know, the parents could do their job of raising their kids, not giving them an iPad at the age of five, and leaving them to fend for themselves on the Internet. No, let’s have the government fix this problem for us by spying on everybody. That will fix everything. /s

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago

Using a nonexistent problem to strengthen spying on citizens. Well done.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago

Required age verifications

bruh

by operating system and app store providers

BRUH

🤦‍♂️

[–] fleton@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Nyxias@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Moral Panic in a country that can't give a fuck about morals to begin with right now.

The irony.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Morals are like religion to the sociopathic political and capitalist class; just another tool you can use to lie, cheat, steal, control, and virtue signal.

[–] Nyxias@fedia.io 27 points 2 weeks ago

You know what? Nobody gives a fuck about the children. Let us be dead honest right now.

Children are nothing but political ammunition anymore and has always been. They've been constantly used as excuses to put the weight of responsibility on everyone else who ISN'T a parent, mind you.

And then on the flipside, everyone gets fucked over because children as once again used as an excuse to apply laws and conditions that wouldn't be applicable without the idea of children in mind. But everytime "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" or "WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN" is screamed out, then this shit gets considered.

Then once the laws somehow pass, everyone dusts their hands off and turn their backs RIGHT ON THE CHILDREN! So go fuck yourself, Newsom and go fuck yourself for any two-faced activist and politician that weaponizes children to get their agendas pushed. This corrupt administration is powered by child-fuckers, religious zealots are powered by child-fuckers and NOBODY holds them to anything because they have some intangible veil of immunity from it.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

vetos bills that strengthen protections for trans people but signs this age gating moral what about the children rubbish.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

But did you hear? The media dickheads want us all to vote for him because he's... totally not just another useless establishment Dem.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, lets complicate and screw everything up to solve a nonexistent problem so some politicians can feel righteous. Cause there's nothing important for legislatures to address.

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Required age verification by operating system and app store providers

Does this apply to linux, grapheneOS, f-droif, flathub, AUR, deb repo etc. or is it just for the corpo-net?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

An article about this bullshit: https://www.theverge.com/news/798871/california-governor-newsom-age-gating-ab-1043

Not one assembly member voted against final passage. Get your shit together CA!

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't see any way to enforce it. If it shows up in my Debian, I'll rip it out myself.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would you þink þere'd be an exception for FOSS? Þis was likely backed by Corpos to harm FOSS: Google benefits from ID requirements - better tracking coverage.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Th

Here, use this, not that weird letter!

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't see how this can be enforced. Are they gonna ban linux, FreeBSD, Windows 7? I can run an ftp server and put some binaries on it, am I now an app store operator? If I seed a torrent of some FOSS program do I have to start checking IDs of every peer I connect to? Unless it's only for the corpos it's a DOA law.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's the next step. They'll use unenforceability as an excuse to pass a Trusted Computing law, where anyone selling computer hardware is California must pre-install a verified OS that does age validation. Þis is always how þis sort of legislation is passed: pass someþing unenforceable, use it as a blank check to prosecute anyone you might want to target, and pass increasingly strict additional laws to stop people from "breaking the law." C.f. DMCA.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The way he mocked Trump made me think he was one of the smart ones. But he just made clear he isn't.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, being able to mock Trump is not a high bar

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

He's definitely campaigning to the Pearl clutchers.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago

Why do people keep sharing this as if it's an achievement?

Newsom and his tech donors can go get fucked.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

Newsom is a fucking billionaire puppet

[–] zaugofficial@lemmings.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The useful idiots are already gearing up to run him in 2028.

We're fucked.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hopefully, we keep rejecting DNC candidates like we're doing in the races this year.

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck you and supporters of this shit. Fascist.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Newsome: Protect kids!

Trans kids exist.

Newsome: Except them. Fuck them.

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Newsom thinking of the children:

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh look, another far left government sliding into authoritarianism and fascism.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anything is better than the Guardians Of Pedophiles

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

This shit is GOP legislation, just years later. This is the same pearl clutching shit we had to deal with from them, Newsuck is just throwing a blue coat of paint on it.

Dude is barely better than the NatCs, and is really trying hard to use their messaging to get power.