Danielle Foré4d ago

“Complying in advance” is when you go out of your way to do things that you don’t have to do to support authoritarian overreach.

“Complying in advance” is not when you follow laws that have passed and have clearly defined penalties

Learn what phrases mean, maybe

Show threadDanielle Foré4d ago

Denying trans kids healthcare or refusing to update passports with correct gender markers because of an unenforceable executive order: complying in advance

IDing customers in a bar because serving alcohol to a minor is illegal and you will get your liquor license revoked and have to shut down your bar: not fucking complying in advance dipshit. It’s the law. I can’t do shit about this. Get mad at your representatives. I have to follow the fucking law to do business. Jesus Christ

Show threadDanielle Foré4d ago
If the worst thing that’s happened to your rights in the last few years is you might have to type the number 18 into a text box you need to touch some fucking grass. Take that energy and go to a protest. Write your reps. Stop voting for Trump. Don’t vote for Gavin Newsom. Delete meta’s apps. But constantly harassing open source maintainers like we have some kind of power is wild. I am a low income marginalized woman who is just trying to survive right now and I have much larger rights issues
Show threadDanielle Foré4d ago
When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines? Which means realistically the only way for me to not follow the law is to close my business and stop making elementary OS. Do you think it makes sense for me to decide to have no income right now in the middle of massive tech layoffs in a purely symbolic act of protest? Do you really fully understand this is what you’re asking of me?
Show threadr0k4d ago
@danirabbit which bill/law is being referred to here?
Show threadSolitha4d ago

@r0k https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law

@danirabbit

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

AB 1043 also requires OS providers to pipe a real-time age checker to every app developer who requests it.

Tom's Hardware
Show threadr0k4d ago

@solitha @danirabbit wow, thank you for sharing that

I wonder how they expect enterprise installs to satisfy this... what is the age of a system account, if that's all that logs in? 🤔

Show threadThe_Decryptor4d ago

@r0k @solitha @danirabbit You should read the actual law (It's short) rather than the reporting on it, which is universally garbage.

For starters, system accounts aren't people, nor can they use app stores.

Show threadr0k
@the_decryptor @solitha @danirabbit it reads just as poor to me
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
Bill Text - AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

AB 1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

Mar 19 at 12:41amMoshidon