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68040
512 MB  Posts: 971 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done ! |
on: February 28, 2026, 18:51
A new California law requires that all operating system providers (mind you the emphasis is on "providers", not simply developers) incorporate age verification and usage monitoring routines directly into their API. Stiff penalties await all those who won't comply, with no exceptions made for open source or vintage operating systems. Such a law only makes sense, if tampering with said code afterwards is also made illegal. Other US states and governments worldwide are already preparing to follow Gavin Newsom's move and that means, that soon every operating systems - be it recent or vintage - that is also distributed in those areas must have a government approved set of monitoring APIs built directly into the opsys core. Once the ability exists to monitor us all ("and in the darkness bind them") it'll only be a question of time until AI supported permanent monitoring of Desktop and tablet devices will have become common place. In Germany we already have laws on the books that punish sarcastic jokes being made about mainstream politicians. The UK and Germany also don't allow certain critiques of current social and cultural developments. "Denial" of global warming, insisting that humans only have two sexes. The list of potential violations is very long already and growths longer by the day. I always knew the day would come, when our last best refuge be turned into our electronic guardian. I just didn't think it would happen that fast. |
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1187 System 7, today and forever
Reply #1 on: March 04, 2026, 21:53
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Yikes! I suppose that might even explain the exponential increase in bot activity here! 
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 971 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #2 on: March 06, 2026, 00:50
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More and more states are jumping on that bandwagon. And since it punishes the distributors - not the programmers - of an OS and doesn't have any grandfather or open source exemption, anybody distributing an OS by whatever means will become liable. That'll even go for vintage operating systems. Which in essence means, you either have to take them offline or refuse to provide any updates/services for the same (as a distributor would do).
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