Damn 😱 imaging not being able to download your OS because of where you live right now ...

[finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza]

@Sekerias inb4 the use of torrent clients will come with age verification too.
Cus ya know, gotta protect those innocent children from torrenting pr0n...

@nixCraft

[sekerias@social.noleron.com]

@finlaydag33k

The more cannibals are in power, the more they want to protect children.
The best protection for children is to screw with the minds of those creatures who write these laws and eat children on their private islands.

@nixCraft

[simran@fosstodon.org]

@nixCraft "We couldn't deliver your parcel because the driver failed the age verification at the doorbell"

[shaadra@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@nixCraft

This is horrendous.

[phl@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft The world has gone completely nuts.

[toriver@mas.to]

@henrik @nixCraft Imagine if every user of an ATM or a parking payment machine had to enter their birthdate, or have to scan their ID…

[windofchange@mastodon.online]

@henrik @nixCraft I was thinking the same thing. I bet every californian has OS in every home appliance.

[aakaynjl@social.vivaldi.net]

@nixCraft VPN

[grymt@mastodon.cloud]

@nixCraft it's important to protect kids from open source!

[poulet_benoit@fosstodon.org]

@nixCraft

US people are so funny

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@nixCraft

And California of all places.

[melroy@mastodon.melroy.org]

@nixCraft fk age verification

[lil5@social.last.nl]

@nixCraft @janvlug “check out FOSS torrents” Torrent is the best way to download Linux ISO’s

[bartv@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft That's not 100% accurate - they're showing a warning but I don't think they're actively blocking anything? So it's more like the typical American legal bullcrap.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft is this real?

[penguintrinity@social.tchncs.de]

@agowa338
Thats basically legislator's and attorney generals seeking to control human behaviour. The #butthechildren argument is just a skape goat to implement the necessary legislature to collect the necessary data.

Its always a question of data, legislation, cost and time.

This is the cost-effective way of collecting the necessary data in a relatively short amount of time. Later its just a question of extending the legislation.
@nixCraft

[knapjack@snac.gruntle.cc]

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Looks like: https://natlawreview.com/article/california-introduces-new-age-verification-requirements-software-applications

[gvenema@fairmove.net]

@_elena @nixCraft

Yep. It is real.

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

AB 1043 also requires OS providers to pipe a real-time age checker to every app developer who requests it.

Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@knapjack

[luca@sironi.xyz]

@_elena @nixCraft

Theoretically yes, that's exactly what that stupid California law says.

Windows, macOS, Linux—all operating systems.

It'll be interesting to see how they think this could ever be implemented in practice.

After smartphones, they're trying to screw up computers too.

Better to take care of our hardware