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by abustamam 115 days ago
Yeah we need not look further than the 70 year old men in the United States senate/congress who have been in their seats for longer than I've been alive, making laws on technology they don't understand.

I don't know what the solution is for California, but I don't think it's that.
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ece 114 days ago
The solution is to get money out out of politics. Term limits are good for the exact reason you mentioned. For tech law, there should be some sort of tech committee that knows laws like this are idiotic.
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ImJamal 112 days ago
California has term limits (up to 12 years regardless of being in the assembly or senate) and this law still was passed so I don't think you are really selling term limits...
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ece 112 days ago
Term limits do prevent situations like the supreme court, where any institutional knowledge and length of terms can be weaponized for political gain.

Overall, if the objective was to have a non-identifying age flag in operating systems, this isn't the end of the world (though I would have preferred enabling other things I've mentioned here in the past like opening up OSes). If there were younger people in the legislature that tried to understand this better than octogenarians, I think term limits are working fine.

Hopefully parents can use the parental control tools built around this non-identifying flag for some good.

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