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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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[–] 17 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

Enforcing it on android/apple/windows/steamos/chromeos is still problem tho.

Tho I do wonder how they handle chromeos. Do each student have to put their age every year?

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

    My steam account is old enough to legally drink. Wonder if that'll factor in.

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

    That doesn't prove anything. There's no proof that the person currently using it is the same person as the person who created the account.

    By the way, you might also notice this argument also works against age verification systems where the user's age is verified only once. Unless you intend to check their identity every single time they log in.

    Age verification is just a ham-fisted way for the state to try to take over a role that should be exercised by parents. Parental controls exist, people!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Parents not raising their kids right is why we can’t have nice things. It’s always used as an excuse for some draconian measure.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    the parental control thing is a thin smokescreen. Its about control.

    The reality is our OSs and the websites we visit know exactly who we are. They know our blood type, they know if you are pregnant before you do. Why would they need your ID?

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

    SteamOS, ChromeOS and Android are Linux basedoperating systems though. Especially SteamOS is literally just an arch fork with steam preinstalled.

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

    They are talking about how steamos might still be included. Due to the proprietary portions. I'd assume android would fall under that as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Most Linux distros contain proprietary packages, it's one of the reasons why for example Fedora isn't considered beginner friendly, they don't ship proprietary stuff so it doesn't have codecs, etc by default.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    But there is a difference if it is part of the base experience or unavoidable, like you need a Google account to do anything on an OEM Android Install, like install any app and such. I guess same is true for steamOS, since focus on the OS is the steam app.

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