California Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a law requiring entertainment Web sites, including IMDb, to remove an actor’s age or birthday upon request, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Screen Actors Guild hailed the law as a blow against ageism, but the technology community decried it as a violation of free speech.

“We remain concerned with the bill and the precedent it will set of suppressing factual information on the Internet,” said Noah Theran, a spokesman for the Internet Association.

Assemblyman Ian Calderon said the law was aimed at protecting lesser-known actors from discrimination.