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by bee_rider 104 days ago
Also, like, what about IOT devices. Are lightbulbs and thermostats going to need to attest the age of their users? There are so many computers without a useful concept of a user identity.

I honestly think the California law is well intentioned (in the sense that it just asks the OS to attest the age of the user, so, lawmakers probably thought this could be done in a privacy-preserving and minimally annoying fashion), but it seems very focused on desktop and cellphone use-cases.
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gzread 104 days ago
It doesn't ask for any attestation. It's literally just a user profile setting that can be changed by the root user.
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GoblinSlayer 103 days ago
There are various initiatives

> These laws can, and almost certainly will, get worse. New York's proposed Senate Bill S8102A explicitly forbids self-reporting. The state Attorney General will decide how to enforce it. For example, to use Linux, you might need to submit a driver's license.

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