Re: Linux to be illegal in California?

In article <[email protected]>,
Steve Hayes  <[email protected]> wrote:
...
>What about this, then?
>
>"A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification
>requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The
>language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does not restrict its
>requirements to proprietary or commercial operating systems; projects

This has all been hashed out many times in many different forums.

There really is nothing to fear here.

It all boils down to one or more of the following interpretations:

    1) It will be no big deal for Linux to comply, should it (eventually)
    prove necessary to do so.  They will comply in the same way as the
    other OSes will do.

    2) No OS can actually age-verify the user.  All they can do is report
    what the user tells them (*).  Doesn't matter if you are MS, Apple,
    Google or Debian.

    3) It (the law) is actually a Good Thing, for some people, while being
    irrelevant to the rest of us.  In fact, this law is a thing for
    paranoid parents to control their kids, should they (the parents) be of
    such a mindset.  Needless to say, this is irrelevant to me (and, I
    would imagine, to most of you reading this).

    4) The idea of the OS tracking this info (as best as it can) is
    actually not bad (IMHO).

(*) Given current levels of technology.  Someday, I suppose you will have
your brain hard-wired to the computer and it will then be able to actually
determine your real chronological age (**).

(**) But then of course some people will come and tell us that they
"identify" as being 25.

(Posted from: comp.os.linux.misc)

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