With California's new age checking law coming into action in January 2027, there's a lot of discussion on how Linux distributions will be handling it.
  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’ve previously written that they should just challenge this in court because distributing operating systems is distributing software, is distributing information, is protected as freedom of speech.

    What I wonder is why we are only hearing very much about this now that the law has already passed the legislature and been signed into law? Would not the right time have been before those things happened?

  • RalfWausE@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The thing the Fedora guy is proposing sounds… sane to me. Just another question when you create a user, another config file and a daemon that answers yes / no if asked if a user is of a certain age.

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
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      6 days ago

      Yeah, it’s the only solution that doesn’t directly contribute to the construction of the Torment Nexus. Just have a simple fucking OS-level flag for a user. The browser can then send a header or something saying “I’m an adult” if the flag is set to adult.

      • laranis@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Implementing this is not the problem. The real issue is this is a foot in the door to even greater surveillance. We’re frogs in a pot that is just about to boil.

  • kimcha@lemmy.zipEnglish
    61·
    6 days ago

    Do I understand right, that some delusional pricks in one particular US state pushed this nonsense with age verification, and distro devs, instead of just removing OS access from this particular state, wanna make this crap with AV globally?

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 days ago

      That one state is a larger economy than france but half the population.

      I mean still bs, buts its unfortnally not a smaller minor place