California’s AB 1856 would exempt open-source operating systems from AB 1043 age-bracketing rules after amendments approved by the Assembly. 🐧
The bill still expands age-gating to browsers and websites, raising privacy, anonymity, security, and speech concerns cited by EFF. 🔒

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-expands-age-gating

#TechNews #Bill #AB1856 #AB1043 #OpenSource #AgeGating #AgeVerification #EFF #Privacy #Security #Anonymity #FreeSpeech #Transparency #DigitalRights #Internet #FOSS #California #OS

The OS debate isn't just about workflows; it’s a compliance battleground for your fundamental digital rights.

​🍎 macOS is a proprietary walled garden.

🪟 Windows is a telemetry funnel for corporate data collection.

​🐧 Linux is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It represents native digital sovereignty.

​Look at California’s shifting legislative landscape. Last year’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) tried to force operating systems to mandate user age-gating. Lawmakers are trying to correct the mess via AB 1856 to exempt open-source developers but the new bill just pushes the surveillance pipeline further down, forcing browsers to silently track and broadcast user age brackets across the web.

When state laws treat technology as a top-down surveillance mechanism, proprietary systems will gladly bake enforcement right into their closed-source kernels.

FOSS isn't just a development model anymore; it's a critical tool for internet freedom and operational self-defense.

#Freedom #FOSS #Privacy #AB1043 #AB1856 #DigitalRights #OpenSource #Fediverse

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: CA’s AB 1856 Exempts Open Source But Expands Age-Gating

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/02/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-but-expands-age-gating/

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: CA's #AB1856 Exempts #OpenSource But Expands Age-Gating

After public outrage, #California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open source operating systems from the sweeping age-bracketing regime mandated by last year’s #DigitalAgeAssuranceAct (#AB1043 ). Nonetheless, the current bill still jeopardizes internet users’ speech, #privacy , and #security.
#ageverification

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-expands-age-gating

#California Wants To Exclude #Linux and Other #OpenSource Systems From New #AgeChecks

https://www.ghacks.net/2026/05/27/california-wants-to-exclude-linux-and-other-open-source-systems-from-new-age-checks//?utm_source=mas.to&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fmas.to%2F%40KNTRO&utm_id=&utm_creative=&utm_channel=mastodon_organic&utm_platform=desktop&utm_location=argentina&utm_language=es-ar&utm_variant=

#CaliforniaRepublic #GNU #GNULinux #GNU_Linux #CaliforniaDigitalAgeAssuranceAct #DigitalAgeAssuranceAct #DigitalAgeAssurance #OperatingSystems #AgeVerification #BSD #FreeBSD #AB1856 #AB1043 #BuffyWicks #GPL #MIT #Apache #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #EFF #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

#AB1043 #DigitalAgeAssuranceAct
#Linux illegale: dove succede e perché il tempo per reagire sta finendo
https://www.ilsoftware.it/linux-illegale-leggi-verifica-eta/

A parte che Linux, ed un os, non gira solo su PC ma anche su migliaia di diversi dispositivi,in ogni caso la scusa della difesa dei minori è puerile, una scusa al quale nessuno si opporrebbe, strumentalizzata per un controllo globale