We now live in an age where software controls the user, instead of the other way around. It is now an instrument of surveillance and control, instead of liberation.
Age verification is a violation of the user’s rights of the highest order, and using “protecting children” as a justification is a disgusting and egregious hypocrisy.
This is the end of digital privacy.
Good luck with that, California.
I can already tell you: ain’t going to happen.
It’d be the end of Linux, anywhere, the end of your own computer.
What the fuck? I saw that Colorado wanted to implement something like this but really, how do you enforce it? Is it illegal to install Linux now? Even if you enforce it at the login for Windows, what’s to keep someone from installing a browser that doesn’t recognize the curfew?
It’s like these motherfuckers think everyone just “goes online” with their phones and the vertical software stack those entail. And then, what about GrapheneOS?
France considers grapheneOS to be a sign of illegal activites. I am going to be spending the weekend working my new Pixel 10 on grapheneOS. I realize that some apps won’t work and I need to find workarounds for others but like Linux Mint on my desktop and laptop I will get used to it and make it do all I want it to do anyway.
Pro 2A folks in CA: “Oh now you folks think the government is infringing on your rights?”
Yeah I’m not doing that