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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/stallmanwasright@programming.dev

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently, from clicking the link in the article:

(g) “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

But I fully agree with you that they didn't think this through very well. Seems that nowadays, politicians see it as their jobs to destroy all the beautiful things that technology built. :(

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey now, dipshit politicos have existed since forever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

That one ended up not passing, and while arguably it was more stupid, it was considerably less harmful.