Irenes (many)there's so many bills in so many jurisdictions, we hadn't realized California actually managed to pass the age verification in the OS thing :(
наб@ireneista did it? as I read the "bill", it looks like (a) it's written in a version of english with no nouns that makes it not really mutually intelligible with english, and (b) it looks like you the user (you the parent) are the operating system provider, since you the user are a person that controls the operating system software on a computer? which makes so little sense I read this for a PR stunt
@ireneista (but then I have lived in an "LGBT-free zone" which covered most of eastern poland and consisted of being deemed an "LGBT-free zone", a media cycle, then running that back in a year, with nothing actually changing ever. so maybe I'm pre-disposed to viewing clearly-bogus "legislature" as PR stunts. but that does seem like something that americans do constantly anyway, so)
@nabijaczleweli there are bills along these lines being introduced all over the world. we agree that enforceability is likely to be a problem but nobody spends that amount of lobbying effort simply for PR reasons.
@nabijaczleweli as context we should mention that we have personally been tracking and opposing these surveillance and censorship bills for years, both as an activist and in our professional capacity
in a woefully inadequate way, because we do not have a massive lobbying apparatus at our disposal, but we've been trying our best