By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta

Wait are they planing to fine non-age verification compliant devices?

AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.

1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation

This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.

Is there any reason to believe they won't want to make an example out of intentional violators?

Can someone eli5 the idea? I don't get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.

Brilliant. I'd like to see how the very uninformed legislators deal with this. They will have to publically re-argue first principles

Brilliant! 💪

Amazing. Where are the build instructions

What in leftist infighting hell is even happening in this comment section?

Why can't rest of the world just cancel California.

For that price, I'll buy a tier 2 just to support the project

I'm curious what the purpose is here, since I don't see it explained on the linked page. Are they essentially trying to bait the state into issuing fines so they can challenge these laws in court? Or just demonstrate how dumb the laws are?

Civil disobedience in this way (buying or owning an "illegal" product) doesn't seem like it would have the same impact as a sit-in against segregation or something like marching on a highway. There's nothing really visible for media to show off, and no real inconvenience to anyone. The state could just ignore these entirely, right?

Edit: answered my own question by reading the main Ageless Linux page. Seems like the point is to bait the state AG into fining them, or if not, explain why they aren't enforcing the law? Dunno if this will do anything but good luck to the project anyway! They certainly have the right spirit.