Look, it makes sense. If you’re trying to convince a child on the internet to send you pictures or have sex with you, you want to know they’re really a kid and not some FBI agent pretending. Having operating systems that report users ages and having a way for anyone to see that reported age for everyone online is a good practice.
Thank god our MAGA guardians don’t like government poking its nose into freedom-loving citizens’ lives.
Or put pedophiles in charge.
This is why systemd-dbus added in that new field some months back. This is digital ID.
The bill only covers operating systems which integrate with cloud services. The bill is designed to target what it calls “addictive” feeds and services. Linux distros don’t appear to be in scope. Yet again cm0002 is demonstrating an inability to read the actual sources.
I don’t get where you get that from. If I understand the article correctly, there are no exemptions for open source…
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Open source exemption where?
Illinois isn’t the first state to try this model. Colorado’s SB26-051 and California’s AB-1043 both rely on the same OS-level age signal setup; apps request it, and the device answers.
Both of these started off without any concessions for open source platforms (e.g., Linux).
Colorado’s SB26-051 originally applied to every operating system and developer without exception. System76 founder Carl Richell worked directly with state lawmakers to change that.
The bill picked up language exempting operating systems and developers distributing software under terms that let anyone copy, redistribute, and modify it freely. It also added a clause blocking platforms from locking down modified versions.
California’s AB-1043 had the same gap. Assembly Member Buffy Wicks, the same lawmaker who wrote AB-1043, introduced AB-1856 to fix it. After several rounds of edits, the amended bill redefines “operating system provider” to exclude anyone distributing software under those same open license terms.
Illinois has none of this. HB5511’s definitions for “covered manufacturer” and “application store” stay just as broad as these bills were before their amendments.
I had been following 5511 for awhile but lost sight of it. was this added just before it was vetted? From my own analysis (at the time) it was targeting all OSs generically.
tfw ur linux install adds a “I am not installing this operating system in the state of Illinois” checkbox.
Yea, but why the AI slop image?
Every operating system!?
So who is going to come out and update the operating system in every smart tv, every web-connected fridge, Internet routers in every school and home, the obsolete consoles (Nintendo 64, PS2) that were passed down from the neighbour’s kids?
i dare you to even define “operating system”.
I want my dumb TV no matter the price.
Rip to all iot device maintainers lol
That simplifies things for pedophiles…
personally can’t wait to identify thousands of children and reference them with data from google and meta to identify where they live and their identities only to use it as evidence against the state to build a lawsuit.
Beyond dumb. I had communicated with adults even in their 50s when I was 13, and never did anything happened, besides sharing love for making mods for games? Like, the better solution is education on online interactions.
Plus, this makes it easier for preds to find victims anyway.
As a general rule, politicians who approve age gates and the people lobbying for it don’t do it because of the children, but because they want mass surveillance. Granted, some politicians and lobbyists who genuinely care about children (if you can find any) are also just duped.
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To control any political Opponents/ movements/ ideologies. Just Think all the ways this could be abused by a corrupt government.
See the surveillance state by Stalin in soviey russia. https://archive.org/details/youtube-nB5BolMoCZ8
German politicians are already sending the police home to people who insult them on forums and social media, including (temporary, but often for an extremely long time) confiscation of devices that may have been used for the “crime”. And that’s in a country that doesn’t literally have masked government goons on the street that regularly abduct, injure and murder the law-abiding population (yet) like the US.
/s ?
Because their corporate donors want regular workers to be afraid and not get any ideas about redistributing wealth, unionizing, etc
Good thing there aren’t any operating system vendors actually operating out of Illinois.
Imma move there and start DeepDish Linux (forking Hannah Montana Linux, obviously) just for the media attention
They need to run that train backwards and bring Terry back to life to a huge pile of skrilla if they want the OS my kids will be raised on to report anything.
Well staying out of that state. Sucks for them. Hope yall vote out all the fuckers who voted for this law.
That’s the thing, though. This is the best governor this state has had in modern history. Pritzker has been on the money when it comes to almost everything. No idea how he missed the mark so badly here.
Unfortunately both parties share the same donors who benefit from this, and getting momentum on a third party under a bipartisan system takes a lot of time and effort
Can’t seem to find that video of that guy that shilled Illinois to hard. I wonder what he thinks of the state that invented computers is now using computers as panoptics.
