They’re basically minimum-viable products that by design can be used to violate the law in California when the Act goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
Why can’t rest of the world just cancel California.
What in leftist infighting hell is even happening in this comment section?
For some people the world is black and white, I think that law is considered bad by everyone, but for some people complaying to state regulation is a crime against humanity itself.
It is either puppies or genocide, no in-between, so adding two lines of code for json support of an age field in a systemd module warrants you to be publicly shamed, called names and probably harrassed irl.
The guy probably just wanted to be able to continue using linux at work, and without that crap he will have to go back to windows
It is either puppies or genocide, no in-between
puppy genocide?
Radical centrism
AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.
1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation
This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.
Is there any reason to believe they won’t want to make an example out of intentional violators?
They probably will, but I think the intentional violators are intending to make a spectacle out of it. I suspect California Voters will have it repealed in short order, but in the mean time the world should probably ruthlessly mock and isolate them.
I don’t know, maybe not looking stupid
In whose eyes? They have lobbyists backing them, and a general public who doesn’t know any better, or care to know.
Exposing the stupidity is a great goal, running headfirst into the “Who will think of the children!1!!” wall… not so much.
Wait are they planing to fine non-age verification compliant devices?
By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta
One more reason for me to fucking hate Zuckerberg.
Add it to the pile at this point…
Brilliant. I’d like to see how the very uninformed legislators deal with this. They will have to publically re-argue first principles
Why though? How does this force anybody to do anything? They will fine anybody 2500$ for handing this to a kid and call it a day. Maybe even move closer to the maximum fine because it is a deliberate breaking of the law.
I think the grandparent was being sarchastic mate
Edit: at least I hope
Can someone eli5 the idea? I don’t get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.
California is adding a requirement for age verification for operating systems (or something like that) so each one of these violates that law by booting into linux.
Not just California. Several other US states are considering (or will be rolling out) similar laws, and Brazil’s version has already rolled out this month.
