Good luck with that, California.
I can already tell you: ain’t going to happen.
It’d be the end of Linux, anywhere, the end of your own computer.
We now live in an age where software controls the user, instead of the other way around. It is now an instrument of surveillance and control, instead of liberation.
Age verification is a violation of the user’s rights of the highest order, and using “protecting children” as a justification is a disgusting and egregious hypocrisy.
This is the end of digital privacy.
What the fuck? I saw that Colorado wanted to implement something like this but really, how do you enforce it? Is it illegal to install Linux now? Even if you enforce it at the login for Windows, what’s to keep someone from installing a browser that doesn’t recognize the curfew?
It’s like these motherfuckers think everyone just “goes online” with their phones and the vertical software stack those entail. And then, what about GrapheneOS?
France considers grapheneOS to be a sign of illegal activites. I am going to be spending the weekend working my new Pixel 10 on grapheneOS. I realize that some apps won’t work and I need to find workarounds for others but like Linux Mint on my desktop and laptop I will get used to it and make it do all I want it to do anyway.
So if you’re not using the normie OS you’re a criminal? That’s so very fucked up.
Yeah I’m not doing that
At least this one only requires a dialogue box to ask you what age you are when making a user, but this is still a violation and a slippery slope.
God, these stupid fucks probably can’t even change the time on a microwave.
While they are stupid, they are aware of what they are doing. There is no way all of this is happening without a clear agenda.
And that agenda is the destruction of all social change and democracy. They basically want to make the internet even more stripmalled than it already is. Barring people from any online service unless it is 100% approved by them and also collect information on everyone and everything around them.
One thing this is making me realize is just what a good thing we had. I remember people told me in the past (even early-mid 2000s) that anonymity on the internet is a myth. While kinda true even then, I had no fucking idea just how little these people would know about you and your online activities in the past. Even without a VPN and all the cookies and shit it is remarkable how much anonymity you actually had.
Pro 2A folks in CA: “Oh now you folks think the government is infringing on your rights?”