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I will start making a list for linux then. rm - ok for all ages. grep - 18+, you can obviously use this to search for porn. find - 18+, see grep. reboot - ok for all ages. echo - ok for all ages. cat - 18+, prints the porn you found directly to your terminal. sudo - 18+, obviously. kill - ok for all ages. This is the US, right. ps - 18+, no peeping at other processes.
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Nope, just the normal one. It asks for your age and gates further interactions based on the answer, no? That's verification.
> and gates further interactions based on the answer No. The OS does literally nothing with the age information other than water it down to a few pre-defined age brackets and pass that on to applications. There's nothing in this law that says any action has to be denied. It's information collection and reporting, with no verification, accepting the information reported by the user as-is. The law does not require the…
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The same way anything illegal is detected: a police report.
You misread my comment. How is it detected? A police report is for after it's detected.
Preventing the crime from happening is out of scope of the government, as it should be.
I don’t see anything in that bill ( https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... ) that requires age verification . It says users, on account creation, must indicate their age or birth year (or both) and that programs must have access to that info, but I don’t see any requirement about checking whether what the user enters is correct. What does make it weird is that it requires account holders to e…
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You misread my comment. How is it detected? A police report is for after it's detected.
At the very least, the affected parties would know if a crime has been committed. Preventing the crime from happening is out of scope of the government, as it should be.
The affected parties are unsupervised children, who are accessing adult spaces and content. Are you saying the children will tell on themselves?
Maybe take a moment to re-read this comment chain.
Although it appear stupid, maybe an OS level endorsement of user age is actually a more reasonable middle ground than delegating mandatory age verification to data brokers... It still parents that usually buy the computers and set up the différents user accounts. So the responsibilities would be put back in their hands as machine owners to correctly tag kid's accounts. OS vendors would then only be responsible to acc…
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>The word Senate is etymologically related to "senior", it's a place where you _want_ people to be able to develop a lot of institutional experience. I’m not disagreeing with the rest of your comment, but I’m going to challenge the notion that this etymological connection carries meaning. The word comes from Roman Senate, and in that context in Latin “senior” really meant people with higher status rather than age. La…
Yeah, many words are literally divorced from their etymological root. Literally ;)
All those using it to mean 'factually' are out there making a farce of the language. A farce!
Skimming the actual text of the law[1], I don't see anything particularly objectionable. Basically it requires a toggle when creating/editing a local user account that signals "this user is/is not a child". Applications could then tailor their content for child/not child audiences. Which isn't to suggest that it's a good law, just not really "age verification". [1]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextCl…
My first reaction is that this is an insanely bad law: * The signal has to be made available to both apps and websites * So if you dutifully input valid ages for your computer users, now any groomer with a website or an app can find out who's a kid and who isn't. You just put a target on your kid's back. * A fair share of parents will realize this, and in order to protect their children, will willfully noncomply. So…