Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems
2026-05-25 16:17 UTC
Replies (12)
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@Matty_r@programming.dev 2026-05-25 16:34
Thats great. I do fear that it’ll still pretty much be a requirement if they continue to force age verification through websites etc.
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-05-25 17:38
Gotta do something to boost computer literacy amongst the youth.
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@ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2026-05-25 18:22
Can we please call it what it is: mandatory ID.
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@infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2026-05-25 21:03
I mean how would they not exempt FOSS, short of individually policing the software install on every individual personal system or instituting new hardware requirements and making the use of non-compliant hardware criminal?
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@theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2026-05-25 21:25
So free software is actually about freedom, huh.
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@Majestic@lemmy.ml 2026-05-26 00:12
I’m afraid this isn’t the win you think it is. One of two things will happen in the near future: Nearly everything you do online from banking to shopping to social media (including online gaming) to paying your electric or internet bill to yes porn will require OS-level attestation to access and use the site. Linux lacking this will become an incredibly private OS that is useless for anything online making this a defeat for Linux having any hopes of real desktop market share and/or forcing it to comply. Microsoft, Apple, Google would love to push Linux as an OS option off the table. Kids will start using liveboot or installing Linux and evading these controls, Christian fascists, tech overlord capitalists, and the government will take notice and write a bill to close this “loophole” and within a few years having already established the idea in the popular conception that age verification is okay will face lesser resistance in quickly ramming it through.
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@Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2026-05-26 02:39
“Don’t complain, just fork it” people when complaining works:
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@CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2026-05-25 23:38
Good. As a European person using Linux in Canada, I refuse to engage with any extra nonsense on my computer just because some American states are being idiotic. Even if it’s just one extra click, I’m not doing it just because California says I should. Get fucked
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@LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world 2026-05-26 03:06
Maybe this isn’t the worst timeline after all.
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@starsoaked_lily@lemmy.ml 2026-05-26 16:38
surely now all of those projects, like systemd, who capitulated in advance will all roll back the changes they made to enable age collection, right? right?
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@kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2026-05-27 03:49
Exempted for now…
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@TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-05-27 03:54
It’s still a bad, dumb idea