“In the case of Colorado’s and California’s bills, effectiveness is lost.

[system76@fosstodon.org]

“In the case of Colorado’s and California’s bills, effectiveness is lost. In the case of New York’s bill, liberty is lost.”

Carl Richell, System76 Founder and CEO, urges New York to reject S8102A OS-level age verification.

Read his full statement: https://s76.co/m-S8102A

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@system76

The entire tech industry has a comeuppance headed their way.

https://www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-driven-search-may-reshape-democracy-economics-and-human-agency/

[sjb@mstdn.io]

@system76 What about a calculator, do we need age verification to use that?

[bzdev@fosstodon.org]

@system76 I can't make heads or tails out of the California law: for example I have a graphics program, epts, written in Java (so it is kind of a plug-in) and distributed via a Java installer or some Debian packages, & I'm out of the loop. Meanwhile in Linux/Unix, even "ls" is an application. Is age verification needed for that? Or for running 'ping' to see why your network is misbehaving (how do you send/receive a "signal" when your network is down).

https://billzaumen.github.io/epts/manual/index.html

[kiri@fosstodon.org]

@sjb Well obviously! Kids get calculators to say 80085 so that's clearly pornography!

[ryebreadnyc@fosstodon.org]

@system76 I just spent a little time looking over the NY bill. It seems like every section makes reference to a single paper published by a right wing think tank called the Foundation for American Innovation.