If they know the social media algorithms are harmful why don't they deal with that? Like Facebook tried to see if they could just make people sad by tweaking their algorithm (they could) and no one faced consequences.

The answer is money and corruption, I expect.

linux mint is based in ireland fyi

I continue to believe that in the US, the First Amendment prohibits any level of government from requiring operating systems in general to implement any features whatsoever. Distribution of software, including operating systems, in source or compiled form, is covered under "the freedom of speech".

If the government thinks this is just product regulation, then fine, but then the law should be limited to operating systems preinstalled on devices.

How are they going to enforce that.

There's a lovely feature of open source.... you can just change it however you like.

I'm weirdly supportive. Putting walls between teens and boobs is the real incubator for future technical leaders. I would know.

This is gonna make a database where you can know who are the children and directly target them with whatever you want.

Pritzker was an AIPAC board member so it’s not a huge surprise he’s among the first to rollout digital ID laws

Not gonna happen ..

TempleOS in schools! /s

Hello, @sanitation@lemmy.today .

Why does the title of your post say "operating system providers"? I tried looking for any operating system references in this article but could find none. I'm under the impression that this law applies only to social networking platforms, but I could be mistaken - I only skimmed it.

Thank you.

EDIT: Same with open source projects. I tried searching for "open-source" and "open source" on the page - to no avail.

After reviewing the actual text of the law, I think the title of this post is false or at the very least extremely misleading by omission. I suggest editing the title or deleting the post altogether as to not spread misinformation.

Still a.terrible law though.

From page 7 of the bill:

"Operating system provider" means a commercial or non-profit entity that controls the Internet-enabled device's operating system, including the design, programming, or supply of operating systems for the Internet-enabled devices.

So it does appear Linux and other open source OSes would be included.

I'm going to grab my bucket of popcorn and wait to see how they think they can enforce that. Sure, anything "sold" within state limits can be forced to do that.

But fuck all stops people from grabbing ventoy and 100 different ISOs hosted outside Illinois and telling the state government to eat your asshole.

how about skip the age check and just provide these protections to all users?

Except this requires companies to implement OS-level age verification. According to the law, the OS has to ask a user their age when creating an account, then the OS has to implement an API that can be accessed via app stores or websites that provides a general age bracket that the user fits into (under 13, 13 - 16, 16 - 18, 18+). I'm a Pritzker supporter but this is awful legislation that opens the door to more intrusive age verification. And good fucking luck getting this to work on Linux/BSD systems or open Android ROMs.

Midwestern solidarity folks.