California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law
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SteamOS could still be affected
  • iuseasahibtw@ani.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    It’s being exempt because the Government can’t enforce this requirement on FOSS. Linux isn’t managed by a corporation and I don’t think people realize this yet.

    • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I mean they could force big corpo to not allow anyone who can’t verify age to use their services.

      • KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
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        1 month ago

        This is sponsored by meta to push the age requirement tracking onto the os rather than Facebook directly to avoid liability when under age kids access harmful content

        • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Which is insane, as the OS doesn’t have any way to authoritatively measure the user’s age and so they have to be ‘honor system’ where the age is whatever the user says the age is, or require some online account with identity validation, which is what facebook tries to do anyway.