Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal). The bill states, among other factors, that “An operating system provider shall do all of the following:”
"(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
“(2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user.”
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The pedophile elite demands your age for your safety.
California has for as long as I can remember had this weird unique brand of liberal authoritarianism. I’m so glad I left.
What the fuck is up with the ruling class’s push on age verification on everything the past year? Does anyone actually know what the deal is?
My brain goes to the theory that they want to create undodgable ways to surveil everyone after the Luigi incident so everyone’s ID (and photo) is on record, making them easier to track - I trust these people not storing identifiable information as much as I trust my phone to not be recording 24/7. The fact that Palantir has started to spread like mold in every industry with sizable information databases too.
They want a forever permanent record from birth to death. All the bullshit you do from the moment you can pull up your own pants. Blackmail. Insurance rates. Credit scores/cards. Loans. School admissions. Everything.
Automated AI Surveillance to link users to everything they do online spearheaded by Palantir and Israel.
Exactly this. This is from palantir source code
They are having a bit of trouble with finding enough minors after Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Probably, another angle I’ve thought about is having your browsing history on file for potential arrest and or future blackmail if you become someone important.
I heard an angle the age verification laws in Australia were to stop competing legislation banning gambling ads. If they can arbitrarily say they’ve kicked kids off the internet they can justify still allowing more ads
This OS causes cancer in the state of california
- Mint probably
Kinda excited for my Linux distro to be illegal. I read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow as a kid and it left a big impact
late to work again because my toaster wont sign in without my yubi key and the touch controls are all greasy
you joke but i bet if you polled every IT Guy in California they’d probably overwhelmingly recommend every household appliance should require 2FA and will drive out to the drone-strike trailer to target you if, as a homeowner, use your Feitan for your toaster 2FA instead of creating a ticket to request a yubikey from the government like you’re supposed to
Tagline please
Lookin forward to scrolling past the CA-compliant linux isos, lmao
CIA-compliant
No need to do (1) if there’s no “account setup”
Pcgamer citing lunduke is cringe, literally the worst person you know and not an expert on anything.
This law is so unenforceable you could just call it anarcho capitalism. I can’t wait for Californian liberals to enter the “Is it GNU, is it Linux or GNU/Linux/systemd/gnome|kde/Firefox” flamewars.
Amazing how there is no good reason not to move US companies to Canada now
There is still Delaware
Wonder if Microslop will back-port this to Windows 10 because of the great opportunity to demand IDs and logging into a Microslop account on your machine.
Doubt it since it’s EOL. But you should not use Windows. Move to Linux or atleast use Windows LTSC.
LTSC is still an operating system with network connectivity. IF they were back-porting it to Windows 10 they’d include it there as well most likely because these laws don’t tend to provide intelligent exemptions like for server OSes or embedded stuff.
In California’s case I can forgive them for now IF they don’t amend it and make it worse (big IF) as I suspect this will be a stepping stone to saying “now that you have this basic thing, implement a workflow to check an ID at set-up as well”. As it stands at PRESENT it’s just parental controls where a parent can set their kid’s age as young and restrict them from inappropriate stuff which isn’t a bad goal necessarily (though fraught with actual problems in a reactionary society like ours).
If I were writing these laws at a minimum I’d exclude OSes that lack a GUI as well as those that have a GUI but lack an ability for unrestricted internet access as well as those that reasonably are not used by consumers such as those intended to be installed on server hardware and which are not sold generally to average end users.
More than likely other states pass this but require an ID or something and companies like Microslop, Google, Apple say fuck it and though initially restricting such requirements to those states announce a nationwide rollout because trying to comply with various laws is hard so might as well just comply with the strictest version floating around more than one state.
So I doubt we’ll be worrying about this for long. They’ll be outlawing Linux in practice before the decade is up except for certified CIA run editions with closed source ID checking modules from Palantir or whatever. Which means hardware vendors will likely lock out those versions or at least not make hardware compatible with them or offer drivers. Valve can pull off maintaining their own flavored fork that complies but it’ll only run on certified hardware, everyone else will use a version of Microslop Linux which is just Linux by Microslop with their AI and lots of proprietary code compiled on top of it. But all the other editions will become hard pressed to be run on anything your average consumer can buy. Dark times ahead.
But you should not use Windows.
I’ll use what I need to in order to run what I need to run. For now I must maintain Windows machines. LTSC? Why yes I do. Thanks for your concern.
But you should not use Windows.
tell that to developers
On its face, this seems actually fine. All it’s REALLY mandating is that apps have a way to ask if the user is an adult or not. The burden of trust is placed on whoever sets up the OS, I.E. the parent, which is EXACTLY where it should be. No burden is placed on adults setting up usage for themselves. It’s not even much of a privacy concern, given that setup doesn’t require specifying age, but a general age bracket.
We’ll have to see how this ends up getting implemented.
isn’t it essentially bait for a harsher law then? any proposed implementation will immediately instigate a thousand bored devs to find ways to bypass, then they can go “look how easy it is to bypass”, and justify whatever?
It’s not a ridiculous point, but like… our governments need NO excuse to make harsh/strict/nonsense laws. If that’s what they wanted, they would have simply done it.
Yeah, it literally says nothing about the method of verification or its reliability
Can’t wait for California Tech bros to cry when they tank their state’s econony.
I need to find that picture of the tech bros looking like apes crying about their NFT’s or whatever that silly fad was.
normal people aren’t literate enough to reject this in “harm the economy” numbers
That’s the one! 😄 Is that an official hexbear emoji now?
Has been for a few years, you can tell because it’s an AI image from back when those were seen as just kinda funny and not an affront to all life.
Fair. In their defense they can still be generated cheaply locally by open source programs like stable diffusion, there’s just a slight quality downgrade. I’m given to understand that the real environmental damage is in the training, but open source initiatives greatly reduce that (done once, free for all).
so many 1927 users to appear
i was always born 01/01/1970
I was born in 1885, I’m a vampire so you must accommodate me
Invitation only
Something something 1984
