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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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Post by d1sxeyes »

1718627440 wrote: post #518
d1sxeyes wrote: post #516

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I agree with all the points here, but the task force report is not law, and this is not “clearly stated” (this specific phrase is fine, but the rest of the document is full of disclaimers). It’s a useful guide on how the law is likely to be interpreted, and likely influences the interpretation itself, but my inner pedant is not satisfied.

Yeah, it was the closest I could find, but I don't really care that much to search the actual laws. I would expect it to be true, it's basically what you hear in the news and all the advise says that you should do that, when you create a GDPR-compliant website.

> Yeah, it was the closest I could find

Yeah, me too, which is why I challenged OP on the claim that it's 'clearly stated'.

Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

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Post by user_7832 »

thefreeman wrote: post #57
user_7832 wrote: post #34

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I think there's a lot of proprietary stuff, from Google Play Services to Pixel specific features. A very significant stack of "modern" software layers are proprietary, even on Android.

I think that was his point

Welp, looks like I got wooshed

Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

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Post by Ajedi32 »

Bender wrote: post #485
Ajedi32 wrote: post #476

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That's incorrect. The existing RTA header is for marking porn as porn.[1][2] (In case English isn't your first language, "adult website" is a euphemism.) An actually useful standard would need to be much more granular, and be designed as a whitelist not a blacklist, as I and previous commenters said. [1]: https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions#:~:text=Restrict... [2]: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/14073…

I disagree. Restricted To Adults means Restricted To Adults. The header can literally be used on any website that one is self describing as for adults. One could put it on a site that sells firearms for example. It could be applied to a siteThere are no restrictions. Team Dang could put it on news.ycombinator.com if they so desired. There is nothing and nobody that could stop them. I put it on my blogs even though th…

Okay, you're right, I'm overstating my case. Realistically though, in the vast majority of cases where that tag is used it's used for porn. Trying to re-purpose such a tag to label all content that isn't strictly kid friendly isn't viable. (And again, it's not granular, and a blacklist rather than whitelist, which isn't ideal for this use case.)

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Post by Geezus_42 »

dessimus wrote: post #434
Geezus_42 wrote: post #413

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No, 99.9% of the mail I get is trash and is delivered by USPS. You can't even recycle most of it because of the paper they are printed on. It's a huge, disgusting waste of resources on multiple levels.

> It's a huge, disgusting waste of resources on multiple levels. The companies on the ads wouldn't do it that way if they were not getting a positive ROI from it. They probably only need to get 2 maybe 3 new customers to offset the cost of mass mailings.

I don't care. Its still garbage I didn't ask for that is now in my mailbox so I have to deal with it. They have plenty of other ways to advertise. Everywhere I turn in public there's more ads.

Re: California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

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Post by Geezus_42 »

dessimus wrote: post #489
tardedmeme wrote: post #486

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This isn't true. Proctor and Gamble cancelled $200m of advertising and saw no change in sales. And companies using AI are costing more money to produce worse quality stuff more slowly. Facts don't matter, only how well you can convince a CEO.

Most of my physical junk mail is from local businesses like Eye Doctors, Dentists, or Trades, not National Brands unless its a local franchisee.

I don't care if the are local or national. I don't want it, I'm not interested. Most of what I get is not local, it's credit card offers. There's also the fake missed package notices that are actually home warranty companies trying trick you into calling them.
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