They’re basically minimum-viable products that by design can be used to violate the law in California when the Act goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
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By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta
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Can someone eli5 the idea? I don’t get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.
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I agree, but now I am torn because I’m protesting the US as a whole right now.
- Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish6 hours
They’re breaking evil age verification laws on purpose as civil disobedience with cheap hardware
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OK, the disobedience was the part I didn’t get. Thank you!
- Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish6 hours
Insofar as part availability isn’t insurmountably impacted this also constitutes functional resistance to all manor of censorship and surveillance. If you can code, test on one of these
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I can, but I probably won’t, because my backlog is full and overflowing. But it is cheap… damn.
- jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 hours
California is adding a requirement for age verification for operating systems (or something like that) so each one of these violates that law by booting into linux.
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Not just California. Several other US states are considering (or will be rolling out) similar laws, and Brazil’s version has already rolled out this month.
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This was the part I got. But I wondered how that would help?
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Except it’s not age verification and as see n by the systemd fork over this, the people hyperventilating over adding an API are making less secure systems
- MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish7 hours
Brilliant. I’d like to see how the very uninformed legislators deal with this. They will have to publically re-argue first principles






