Linux backlash leads to California law change on age verification
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OS vendors have been mandated to request use age brackets since late 2025, but Linux systems could be exempt if this amendment bill is enforced.

OS vendors have been mandated to request use age brackets since late 2025, but Linux systems could be exempt if this amendment bill is enforced.

  • logging_strict@programming.dev
    24·
    23 hours ago

    linux is not exempted. Open your eyes and survey some cafes access points. They have rolled out captive portals everywhere. Linux runs most routers and some variant of BSD runs the rest.

    These are the lawmakers main target. Cuz corporations can’t wait to comply with edicts.

  • Artwork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    Sorry, “lawmaker”, but I do not believe you learned well anything about human law at all.
    It feels like that “lawmaker” skipped the day they taught the absolute basics of legal frameworks and human rights.

    Their, sorry, indeed “childish” attitude so much inadequate… not a single actually mature person gets I know, realizing that these policy/law proposals are absolute freaking trainwrecks of legal incompetence and pure sorrow, creating colossal disasters… in the human history…

    So much human time, code, updates… nerves… worries… is freaking wasted… and for what? To select 1970-01-01 in the field and forget?

    I hope you, the “nonsense-maker”, will find peace… once you get yours 60 years old reached…

    • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
      28·
      1 day ago

      I think it is much more nefarious than that. All of these age verification laws are tech companies wanting more data from users, so they pay politicians to enact the laws with spurious “won’t somebody think of the children” excuses.

      • logging_strict@programming.dev
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Absolutely no one is fooled; especially within Linux community.

        There is always an excuse. At this point, why bother even reading the excuse. Any excuse is a childish joke and not worthy of even being entertained.

        Whichever coders grabbed their ankles should be forever ostracized.

        systemd is persona non grata.

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
      16·
      24 hours ago

      Don’t be a fool. This will only mean that apps and websites treat every Linux user like they are 0 years old and you won’t be able to access anything.

      Do you really think they’re just going to be like “oh ha sorry open source is cool though, we are just taking computers away from the control of the masses so we can remain in power and continue to do exploitative capitalism and fascism forever because we want to punish only large global corporations”?

      No dipshit this change is meant to outlaw Linux in California