They’re basically minimum-viable products that by design can be used to violate the law in California when the Act goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta
One more reason for me to fucking hate Zuckerberg.
Add it to the pile at this point…
Zuckerberg and Thiel.
To avoid any responsibility for them not moderating.
Source?
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Can someone eli5 the idea? I don’t get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.
They’re breaking evil age verification laws on purpose as civil disobedience with cheap hardware
OK, the disobedience was the part I didn’t get. Thank you!
Insofar as part availability isn’t insurmountably impacted this also constitutes functional resistance to all manor of censorship and surveillance. If you can code, test on one of these
I can, but I probably won’t, because my backlog is full and overflowing. But it is cheap… damn.
It’s protestware.
I agree, but now I am torn because I’m protesting the US as a whole right now.
Wait are they planing to fine non-age verification compliant devices?
Well yeah. And since no one is ever going to provide their real age, they will probably set jail time and photo ID upload requirements.
AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.
1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation
This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.
Is there any reason to believe they won’t want to make an example out of intentional violators?
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I have serious doubts about any voters, anywhere in the world, repealing any laws like this:
- Most people like laws that let them avoid responsibility
- Most people are, or have been, parents at some point
- Most parents will offload the responsibility onto “the government” instead of admitting to poor parenting
This kind of act of insubordination, the way it is framed, I’m afraid is likely to meet the opposition of most people.
I don’t know, maybe not looking stupid
In whose eyes? They have lobbyists backing them, and a general public who doesn’t know any better, or care to know.
Exposing the stupidity is a great goal, running headfirst into the “Who will think of the children!1!!” wall… not so much.
Brilliant. I’d like to see how the very uninformed legislators deal with this. They will have to publically re-argue first principles
Why though? How does this force anybody to do anything? They will fine anybody 2500$ for handing this to a kid and call it a day. Maybe even move closer to the maximum fine because it is a deliberate breaking of the law.
Brilliant! 💪
Amazing. Where are the build instructions
Coming in Q3
Why do we need to wait three months for them to prove this works?
Here’s e.g. instructions for using a cheap screen with the base board: https://milkv.io/docs/duo/Accessories/ST7789
Why can’t rest of the world just cancel California.
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