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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.

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
    12·
    6 days ago

    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?

    • tristynalxander@mander.xyzEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      They probably will, but I think the intentional violators are intending to make a spectacle out of it. I suspect California Voters will have it repealed in short order, but in the mean time the world should probably ruthlessly mock and isolate them.

      • jarfil@beehaw.org
        1·
        5 hours ago

        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.

      • jarfil@beehaw.org
        2·
        6 days ago

        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.