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California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 67 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It’s being exempt because the Government can’t enforce this requirement on FOSS. Linux isn’t managed by a corporation and I don’t think people realize this yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I mean they could force big corpo to not allow anyone who can't verify age to use their services.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This is sponsored by meta to push the age requirement tracking onto the os rather than Facebook directly to avoid liability when under age kids access harmful content

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Which is insane, as the OS doesn't have any way to authoritatively measure the user's age and so they have to be 'honor system' where the age is whatever the user says the age is, or require some online account with identity validation, which is what facebook tries to do anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    An unverified age bracket in the OS that provides that to web services is the correct way to do it (a parent setting up a computer or account for a kid checks one box and suddenly google safe search, etc, everyone else doesn't check the box, done).

    I suspect meta is hoping to get better unique account to human mapping in their surveillance machine.

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