California's new Snitch-OS age verification law requires that all children be identified as such to literally any app or website that requests it. It also ensures that these requests will be provided with detailed age-cohort information about each child. It can't possibly work the way they want, but here's what it does do: California wants us to paint a corporate marketing and crime victim target on every child's back on line.
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Trixi Schutzo
in reply to Blaise • •You know what it's really for? To get everybody's information so they can Market to us even "more efficiently". They don't give a single crap about children they just want to "Market effectively" and kiss my ass
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in reply to Blaise • •@Blaise
This is intended to get a foot in the door. First they say all distributors of Operating Systems must provide an Age Signal. Just like at first only the rich had to pay income tax. It is much easier to amend legislation after you have something in place. Now, everyone pays Income tax. Eventually an Age Signal will not be enough to protect the children. So they will require more proof of Identification to verify age. Along with MS/Windows using a TPM2 to create an absolutely unique identification that can be verified for all MS/Windows users. Which will make TPM2 common place, so other OSes can as well. They are trying to remove any ability at all to maintain your privacy on the internet.
Typically privacy is not my biggest concern when I get on an international network. Except when it comes to dealing with financial institutions. Though this crosses a line that alarms even me. I have even started building my own Gnu/Linux OSes for my machines as after Jan 2027 I will likely not be able to use Fedora anymore.
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