Remember all the ruckus with various US states introducing operating-system level age verification laws? Colorado and California thankfully exempt open source.
  • sp3ctr4l ( sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
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    6 months ago

    Massive props to System76 for spearheading the resistance and getting these carveouts.

    This kinda shit is only gonna get worse going forward and we will need coordinated counter lobbying to continue to resist this.

  • ivan ( ivan@piefed.social ) English
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    6 months ago

    Sir, you’re under arrest for not adding age verification to your LFS build. 🚓

    Now that I thought about that - it gets kinda funny since most non-open source operating systems already have some sorts of age verification. Microsoft, for example, already knows user’s birth date in majority of cases. And degoogling one’s Android phone also leads up to a open source operation system in there.