Not how I imagined year of Linux on the desktop to happen, but I'll take it!
California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
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Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
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Your post says far more about you than libertarians. Remember, every time you give the government a power, you are creating an avenue for corruption and by design putting someone who probably isn't qualified in charge of decisions they lack the experience to make reliably. There you go, a simple argument that increasing government power has a drawback that you never consider. And that's why you post says more about y…
And every time you remove legislation you open up entire new vistas of corporate depravity and as the last 40 years have comprehensively demonstrated, "market forces" are not a viable replacement for legislation. Increasing government power is a liability only and solely when folks make a habit of electing incompetents and the corrupt. Governance as a concept is fine, what you're actually arguing for is better politi…
Having the government burrow into your Linux install like North Korea is totally fine as long as the people doing it are competent and not corrupt!
Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s exactly what it is. It removes standing, and that is a major flaw in our legal system. We need significant changes to defend constitutional rights properly.
Remember when women kept suing for the right to get an abortion and the courts kept just waiting out the pregnancy? Something something sixth amendment...
Justice delayed is justice denied
Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
#374Okay, let's flip it: why would Apple, Microsoft, etc.. agree with such a law? What would the trickle down be for browser makers and website creators?
This is part of a large movement to end personal computing as we know it, and give all control over our digital lives to the mega corporations. It is already impossible to use some national ID or banking apps on non-Apple and non-Google phones. (say GrapheneOS), giving them an immense edge in the market, and they're using that domination to add more restrictions like installing non-play store apps on Android. This go…
It really bums me out that I fully believe this is it.
Megacorps seize the demand for regulation (to regulate them) in order to write regulation that purportedly does that, but in practice mostly closes the doors behind them and cementing their stranglehold on society. For Microsoft, Apple, and Google it's a small thing to agree to age verification if that means all the potential competitors will have to do so too.
The cheapest time to shut down a competitor is before they get to market.
Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
#375The only device mandates that should be taking place is for the default installations of web clients should be checking to see if parental controls are enabled. This only impacts the major browsers. An intern at each browser company could add this check in minutes. If they are enabled and the person logged in is on a regular account (not admin or power user of sorts) then the base installation of web clients must che…
However, this is not about age verification or protecting children. That is just the excuse they are using. If Meta, Google etc could easily have algorithms in place for determining the age of the person seeing the video - apart from having the override capability via a parental login as you have stated.. but these platforms have consistently refused to limit the type of content they are showing to children.
YouTube has this. It’s YouTube Kids. You can argue all day over whether it’s good enough but they do have this offering.
Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
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Bold of you to assume that lawmakers have any common sense when it comes to technology legislation. It could have taken 3 interns 3 hours at each browser company to implement a cookie consent standard 15 years ago, yet here we are in cookie banner hell.
Like how browsers made a do-not-track feature that got ignored by websites because there was no consequence?
Browsers can literally chose not to store cookies... There is no need to bring trust in the equation.
Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has this idea been discussed when drafting legislation? I mean are they aware of it but dismissed it for any reason or no stated reasons?
I've emailed politicians as have others but only received boilerplate thankyou's. I suspect the real reason is kick-backs but they will never admit it. No harm in people reaching out to their politicians state and federal. The more people that bring it up the better. Let them know your childrens data will not be shared and when the data is leaked you will hold the politicians accountable.
I’m not in the US but assuming everyone who disagrees with you is receiving kickbacks is a bit much. I agree this is a terrible idea and doesn’t make sense past a few seconds of thinking but the reality is it’s very popular with an awful lot of people.
Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bold of you to assume that lawmakers have any common sense when it comes to technology legislation. It could have taken 3 interns 3 hours at each browser company to implement a cookie consent standard 15 years ago, yet here we are in cookie banner hell.
Cookie banners exist because it is a dark pattern companies use to get you to opt into marketing cookies by making the easiest thing the worst choice. This could all be handled by settings in the browser, only if the sites themselves listened to the users' browser preferences.
Lawmakers should have foreseen this would be the consequence of the law and not have gone through with it.
Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
#379we're preparing ourselves to deanonymise the internet. We do not know yet what this will have as a collateral, but certainly the governments will use it against us.
Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
#380Who is actually writing this very concerning California Internet legislation, which will ultimately affect the entire nation and world? Did someone write California Internet legislation without consulting any California Internet companies? Did some California Internet companies write California Internet legislation? Did some other party write California Internet legislation?
Meta alone spent 2 billion dollars lobbying for this worldwide, and it was a massive success, it's passing everywhere unanimously.
>>Meta alone spent 2 billion dollars lobbying fo
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