✅ Required age verifications by operating system and app store providers to help prevent children from accessing inappropriate or dangerous content online.
✅ Social media warning labels to help warn young users about the harms associated with extended use of social media platforms.
✅ Stronger penalties for deepfake pornography by expanding the cause of action to allow victims, including minors, to seek civil relief of up to $250,000 per action against third parties who knowingly facilitate or aid in the distribution of nonconsensual sexually explicit material.
✅ Guidance to prevent cyberbullying through requiring the California Department of Education (CDE), on or before June 1, 2026, to adopt a model policy on how to address reported acts of cyberbullying that occur outside of school hours, and requires local educational agencies to adopt the resulting policy or a similar policy developed with local input.
✅ Clear accountability for harm caused by AI technology by preventing those who develop, alter, or use artificial intelligence from escaping liability by asserting that the technology acted autonomously.
Or you know, the parents could do their job of raising their kids, not giving them an iPad at the age of five, and leaving them to fend for themselves on the Internet. No, let’s have the government fix this problem for us by spying on everybody. That will fix everything. /s
I mean I get it, but regulations are sometimes necessary.
Banning smoking indoors for example, you might say “Just don’t go where they smoke indoors!” well yea… Except that shit was everywhere where people were congregating and all you’d do is isolate yourself…
A lot of regulation might sound like “just don’t” but if every kid around your kid has a tablet, and there is no rule against tablets, it’s only your kid who will be an outcast.
I’m in general against too much regulation, but like vaccines, sometimes you have to target a whole group to fight a disease. You alone staying away is not viable.
And all of this comes before we even talk about the MASSIVE disadvantage patents have against the mega corps, from the CONSTANT ads, to the targeted manipulation, it’s not a fair fighting field.
Anything is better than the Guardians Of Pedophiles
This shit is GOP legislation, just years later. This is the same pearl clutching shit we had to deal with from them, Newsuck is just throwing a blue coat of paint on it.
Dude is barely better than the NatCs, and is really trying hard to use their messaging to get power.
Required age verification by operating system and app store providers
Does this apply to linux, grapheneOS, f-droif, flathub, AUR, deb repo etc. or is it just for the corpo-net?
Why would you þink þere’d be an exception for FOSS? Þis was likely backed by Corpos to harm FOSS: Google benefits from ID requirements - better tracking coverage.
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Here, use this, not that weird letter!
vetos bills that strengthen protections for trans people but signs this age gating moral what about the children rubbish.
