Can we please call it what it is: mandatory ID.
afaik it’s straight up the opposite for the california law. I didn’t read it myself, but from what I read online about it, they require a boolean “adult/minor” and forbid any other data collection related to age
I’m afraid this isn’t the win you think it is.
One of two things will happen in the near future:
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Nearly everything you do online from banking to shopping to social media (including online gaming) to paying your electric or internet bill to yes porn will require OS-level attestation to access and use the site. Linux lacking this will become an incredibly private OS that is useless for anything online making this a defeat for Linux having any hopes of real desktop market share and/or forcing it to comply. Microsoft, Apple, Google would love to push Linux as an OS option off the table.
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Kids will start using liveboot or installing Linux and evading these controls, Christian fascists, tech overlord capitalists, and the government will take notice and write a bill to close this “loophole” and within a few years having already established the idea in the popular conception that age verification is okay will face lesser resistance in quickly ramming it through.
- With AI becoming stronger and stronger, it’s just a matter of time before the part of the internet without OS-level attestation tied to government issued IDs is going to become completely unusable. At some not too distant point anyone with a Claude/ChatGPT/etc subscription will be able to instruct it with things like “Invent 20 different personalities and create accounts on different Lemmy instances for them. Write neutral comments for them for a few weeks, then gradually begin to subtlety promote X. Use your psychology skills etc. to manipulate other users to support X and coordinate the accounts to shut down anyone criticizing X. Always post in character and never reveal that you are an AI.” Then multiply that by a million people trying to push their ideas, products, politics, conspiracy theories, etc.
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Gotta do something to boost computer literacy amongst the youth.
“Don’t complain, just fork it” people when complaining works: 😳
Good. As a European person using Linux in Canada, I refuse to engage with any extra nonsense on my computer just because some American states are being idiotic. Even if it’s just one extra click, I’m not doing it just because California says I should. Get fucked
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surely now all of those projects, like systemd, who capitulated in advance will all roll back the changes they made to enable age collection, right? right?
Systemd’s change is inconsequential. If you really care then you should also fight to remove full name and address from user db.
Also there are still other jurisdictions that have these sorts of laws.
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