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by Tuna-Fish 104 days ago
You missed US states competing on setting up age verification legislation that lets anyone sue any developer who produces systems that don't do age verification for life-destroying amounts of money.
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So, Linus? Patrick Volkerding? I mean, I can build a Linux system from basically nothing.
Hé man I thought us Europeans were kings of dreadful regulations!
Eh private prosecutions and third party standing are generally disfavored to such an extent that sure, attention-whoring legislators will propose it, but whether it even passes constitutional muster on the state level is an open question, and open in every state.
The standing is provided by your child seeing naughty things on the internet.