Or you know, the parents could do their job of raising their kids, not giving them an iPad at the age of five, and leaving them to fend for themselves on the Internet. No, let’s have the government fix this problem for us by spying on everybody. That will fix everything. /s
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by operating system and app store providers
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Using a nonexistent problem to strengthen spying on citizens. Well done.
Yeah, lets complicate and screw everything up to solve a nonexistent problem so some politicians can feel righteous. Cause there's nothing important for legislatures to address.
You know what? Nobody gives a fuck about the children. Let us be dead honest right now.
Children are nothing but political ammunition anymore and has always been. They've been constantly used as excuses to put the weight of responsibility on everyone else who ISN'T a parent, mind you.
And then on the flipside, everyone gets fucked over because children as once again used as an excuse to apply laws and conditions that wouldn't be applicable without the idea of children in mind. But everytime "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" or "WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN" is screamed out, then this shit gets considered.
Then once the laws somehow pass, everyone dusts their hands off and turn their backs RIGHT ON THE CHILDREN! So go fuck yourself, Newsom and go fuck yourself for any two-faced activist and politician that weaponizes children to get their agendas pushed. This corrupt administration is powered by child-fuckers, religious zealots are powered by child-fuckers and NOBODY holds them to anything because they have some intangible veil of immunity from it.
Yet more Moral Panic -.-
Moral Panic in a country that can't give a fuck about morals to begin with right now.
The irony.
Morals are like religion to the sociopathic political and capitalist class; just another tool you can use to lie, cheat, steal, control, and virtue signal.
The way he mocked Trump made me think he was one of the smart ones. But he just made clear he isn't.
To be fair, being able to mock Trump is not a high bar
vetos bills that strengthen protections for trans people but signs this age gating moral what about the children rubbish.
But did you hear? The media dickheads want us all to vote for him because he's... totally not just another useless establishment Dem.
Newsome: Protect kids!
Trans kids exist.
Newsome: Except them. Fuck them.
Why do people keep sharing this as if it's an achievement?
Newsom and his tech donors can go get fucked.
He's definitely campaigning to the Pearl clutchers.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Newsom is a fucking billionaire puppet
The useful idiots are already gearing up to run him in 2028.
We're fucked.
Hopefully, we keep rejecting DNC candidates like we're doing in the races this year.
Required age verification by operating system and app store providers
Does this apply to linux, grapheneOS, f-droif, flathub, AUR, deb repo etc. or is it just for the corpo-net?
An article about this bullshit: https://www.theverge.com/news/798871/california-governor-newsom-age-gating-ab-1043
Not one assembly member voted against final passage. Get your shit together CA!
I don't see any way to enforce it. If it shows up in my Debian, I'll rip it out myself.
Why would you þink þere'd be an exception for FOSS? Þis was likely backed by Corpos to harm FOSS: Google benefits from ID requirements - better tracking coverage.
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Here, use this, not that weird letter!
I don't see how this can be enforced. Are they gonna ban linux, FreeBSD, Windows 7? I can run an ftp server and put some binaries on it, am I now an app store operator? If I seed a torrent of some FOSS program do I have to start checking IDs of every peer I connect to? Unless it's only for the corpos it's a DOA law.
That's the next step. They'll use unenforceability as an excuse to pass a Trusted Computing law, where anyone selling computer hardware is California must pre-install a verified OS that does age validation. Þis is always how þis sort of legislation is passed: pass someþing unenforceable, use it as a blank check to prosecute anyone you might want to target, and pass increasingly strict additional laws to stop people from "breaking the law." C.f. DMCA.
Fuck you and supporters of this shit. Fascist.
Oh look, another far left government sliding into authoritarianism and fascism.
Newsom thinking of the children:


Anything is better than the Guardians Of Pedophiles
This shit is GOP legislation, just years later. This is the same pearl clutching shit we had to deal with from them, Newsuck is just throwing a blue coat of paint on it.
Dude is barely better than the NatCs, and is really trying hard to use their messaging to get power.