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Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S. (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What is this argument? You and I both know they want this age verification at the OS level for personal computing devices: phones, tablets and computers, maybe watches.

Is this really what’s going to kill this law? Semantics?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Yeah actually. A lot of laws get shitcanned into irrelevance due to being worded like shit on everything from the local to federal levels. That's not even getting into conflicts with pre-existing well worded laws or the constitution as a whole.

    If it's worded badly enough it may even just be thrown out on first test due to being vague and too widely applicable. Just for example I drive a 2001 Toyota Tacoma it has an operating system because it's got an ECU, how the actual fuck would that interact with this law? Obviously the corporate answer is to force me to get a new car but the actual practical answer is that that isn't viable, so it's more likely the courts just gut an entire section of the law with one case. Keep up the gutting and sooner or later it'll end up defunct.

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