They’re basically minimum-viable products that by design can be used to violate the law in California when the Act goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.
1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation
This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.
Is there any reason to believe they won’t want to make an example out of intentional violators?
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Wait are they planing to fine non-age verification compliant devices?
Well yeah. And since no one is ever going to provide their real age, they will probably set jail time and photo ID upload requirements.
I mean if we’re making shit up, why not say they’ll execute you for non-compliance?
Hey everyone, found the fed simp. Hilarious name “rioting pacifist” telling us everything is gonna be fine, just like history has always proven. lol.
You should be “strawman fed” for your next username.
Honestly the level of delusion around this is Alex Jones Turning the Frogs gay, there is a shred of truth but that’s about it and you’re our here popping vines over a PR that does very little.
Except you’re on the “Alex jones” side here. You just can’t see because you’re a fed simp.
By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta
One more reason for me to fucking hate Zuckerberg.
Add it to the pile at this point…
To avoid any responsibility for them not moderating.
Amazing. Where are the build instructions
Coming in Q3
Can someone eli5 the idea? I don’t get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.
It’s protestware, which is great.
I agree, but now I am torn because I’m protesting the US as a whole right now.
They’re breaking evil age verification laws on purpose as civil disobedience with cheap hardware
OK, the disobedience was the part I didn’t get. Thank you!
Insofar as part availability isn’t insurmountably impacted this also constitutes functional resistance to all manor of censorship and surveillance. If you can code, test on one of these
I can, but I probably won’t, because my backlog is full and overflowing. But it is cheap… damn.
California is adding a requirement for age verification for operating systems (or something like that) so each one of these violates that law by booting into linux.
Not just California. Several other US states are considering (or will be rolling out) similar laws, and Brazil’s version has already rolled out this month.
This was the part I got. But I wondered how that would help?
Except it’s not age verification and as see n by the systemd fork over this, the people hyperventilating over adding an API are making less secure systems
It’s not ‘hyperventilation’ it’s obvious fascism
JFC it’s “facism” to return an age bracket?
ooh! ooh! Can we restart the systemd wars??
Did the init war ever end? (I use shepherd btw)
Brilliant. I’d like to see how the very uninformed legislators deal with this. They will have to publically re-argue first principles
Brilliant! 💪
