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California's age verification law is proving controversial — here's what you need to know, and why some Linux distros are in the firing line (www.techradar.com)

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

I’m going to be the contrarian here and say the bill is… good? It seems sensibly lax: The OS is required to ask for age, without external proof or requirement to share, and then provide apps who request it an interface to verify your answer.

I think taking the responsibility to verify age out of whichever dodgy data broker asks for it and unto the operating system itself, and ultimately the user if they lied, is a far better solution to the “problem” of age verification, which I don’t believe is going anywhere any time soon.

If you disagree please don’t be mean, I only just read the draft bill

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 14 points 1 month ago (9 children)

What is the age for a family computer in the living room that is used by multiple people without logging in and out?

I don't have to read the law to know it is stupid and worse than doing nothing at all. They could have made it so that parental controls were standardized and apps had to respect that, but instead they chose to make it shitty for everyobe.

[–] admin@scrapetacular.ydns.eu -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Age of youngest user with access?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cool, guess I won't play games rated higher than their age after they go to bed.

[–] admin@scrapetacular.ydns.eu 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have Super Hentai Simulator 3 installed on an account with a strong password and short idle lock time, guests can still autologin with no password

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Just make more accounts" doesn't apply to the shared family computer in the living room. That just means forcing everyone to create multiple accounts when they don't need to.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I don't really get the discussion. At least per that bill nobody gets forced to create multiple accounts. What it does is mandate a input field on account creation. (And a bit more.) Whoever sets up that shared family computer can put in what they like. Create one account or five. Thats up to them...

[–] mech@feddit.org -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As the adult you can just make your own user account with your age and log out when you're done.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am so sick of needing to make an account for every single thing so they can track me as an individual.

[–] mech@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago

Making your own user account on a shared PC is just common sense. That way you can customize it for yourself and your kids don't have to see your and your wife's private photos.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

Ok and you can still do that without this law.

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