Colorado's "age-attestation" bill left the House committee with new exemptions for open-source operating systems, applications, code repositories, and containerized software distribution, reports the blog Linuxiac:
[The bill] focuses on operating system providers and application stores. Its main re...
I worry that if we get lots of diff jurisdictions with diff laws, it may be easiest for an OS to comply iwth the most strict of them.
Lax ones don’t require age verification, but also don’t forbid it. Strict ones require it. You can comply with both at once.
Maybe doesn’t matter if you can easily bypass the age check. Which is true at the present time. But things like this, they often slip-slope into more KYC style of hard to get around. All it takes is a horrible event all over the headlines. If it “could have been stopped” with stricter measures, they’ll come. Once you have a hammer, all problems are nails.
i used to work for an online gaming company and the rules that we applied for the europe were set by gdpr because they were the strictest at the time.
How in the fuck can they restrict software download? This is impossible to do. This law is bullshit cloaking the fact that the technogarchs want this and are fully in control.
Europe won’t save us. Their leaders are either in on it or so fucking stupid they keep building moats for these software companies. All these European laws, and everything just gets worse. These companies are more powerful now, not less. Now they want your iris and to decide if you’re fit to drive your own car.
All under the guise of saving the children that they all want to record to figure out which ones to rape. Brought to you by the global billionaire class. A country isn’t doing this to anyone. That’s another distraction from the fucking class war. These billionaires are the globalists. They answer to no nation state. The only true sovereigns left. And they are clearly winning.