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#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

California Wants To Exclude Linux and Other Open Source Systems From New Age Checks - gHacks Tech News

A proposed amendment to California's Digital Age Assurance Act would exempt open source operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD from age verification requirements.

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Orion Ussner kidder May 2

If you are truly opposed to #AI, and there's all kinds of good reasons to be, then you'd have a much larger effect on the situation if you join a group that's pushing back against its use in schools, building data centres, or just giving $5 to the #ElectronicFrontierFoundation would have more effect or #OpenMedia.

#Computers #Politics

Khurram Wadee ✅Apr 27

#Copyright and #DMCA Best Practices for #Fediverse Operators | #ElectronicFrontierFoundation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-and-dmca-best-practices-fediverse-operators

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Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

People building the future of the social web—interoperable and decentralized—need to protect themselves against copyright liability. This post gives an overview of the steps to take. It’s meant for operators of Mastodon and other ActivityPub servers, Bluesky hosts, RSS mirrors, and other decentralized social media protocols, and developers of apps for those protocols—but it will apply to other hosts as well.

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Library Monster Apr 20

Created an #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation feed for your #Dreamwidth reading pages https://efforg-feed.dreamwidth.org/

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WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business [Unofficial]Apr 13

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/

Snoopy Apr 3

Video: Cindy Cohn - Fighting for Digital Human Rights in “Privacy’s Defender” - Electronic Frontier Foundation

Attorney Cindy Cohn talks to Jon Stewart about her new book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance,” and her work as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is the world’s biggest and oldest digital rights organization. She recounts the fight against sweeping government surveillance after 9/11, her reservations about internet regulations backfiring if placed in the wrong hands, and why the solution to these problems is a combination of comprehensive privacy law, revised business models of giant tech companies who make money off of user data, and more platform choices for individuals. “A world where there are five big media companies that decide everything that we see and how we see it… the answer isn’t to try to take a dictator and make them a better dictator. The answer is to get rid of the dictators and make them less important.”