<![CDATA[Linux in California is in deep trouble.]]>This new "privacy" law will require that all operating system providers must start collecting your birth date every app you install will need to ask your OS provider for that information. It's whacky to see failed mid-90's scifi writers imposing their detached ideas of how computers should work on us all.

Read this as an article: https://gardinerbryant.com/california-just-put-foss-devs-on-the-financial-hook-for-your-kids-safety/

00:00 Introduction
01:09 The text of the law
05:46 Deep ambiguity
10:51 Why?
13:57 If you watch no other part of this video, watch this.
16:49 Is there a silver lining?
18:01 Conclusion

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