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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] anadrark@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Even if they could enforce it which I highly doubt, this law is clearly a "Fuck you and your free software".

Like if a "too young" user have the skills to update the OS to change or even remove the age verification, who will be responsible? Yeah I don't know either, but both will be bad.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 1 point 23 hours ago

I mean, they could already just lie about their age like kids have been doing since the existence of adult websites. Even the facial rec stuff is easily fooled by a video game model. Just has to be able to be manipulated so you can do the head turns or whatever they ask of now.