AB-1043 "Age verification signals: software applications and online services."

Text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Other info https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

California AB 1043 signed. Mandatory os-level, device-level, app store, and even developer-required age verification for all computing devices.

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[–] 156 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Good luck enforcing that on Linux.

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  • [–] 119 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That's probably the point.

    I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft and Google lobbied for this to prevent open source from encroaching on their terf

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Likely yes, though it won't matter to me. I'll recompile from suitably modified source code if it comes to that.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They might try to stop Linux from booting at all with locked bootloaders.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's precedent that source code is protected speech, so maybe Gentoo is about to become a lot more popular.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And who doesn't enjoy using 90% of their system resources to compile the 10% remainder all the time?

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