Today, I met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051.
Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility.
Amendments are expected for the CA age attestation bill. It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence excluding open source in the CA bill amendments.
No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.
@carlrichell I think this is a start at least. The issue is what counts as open source? The real fix is to make parents be parents. They need to be held responsible for what their children do. It's crazy that it's not part of the conversation at all.
We would charge parents with negligence and neglect if they were to leave their kids alone in a bad neighborhood. That is essentially what happens when you give them an Internet enabled device.
We are making corporations arbiters of behavior and actions instead of individuals.
@bhhaskin @carlrichell I think the EU has a software liability approach that could be used as an (just one) example. If you're not making money with it, you're okay. Paraphrased poorly.
It feels like the idea is that profit motives need to come with more responsibility. Maybe that can be adapted.
@bhhaskin @carlrichell These laws have nothing to do with children. That is the excuse, not the reason. The reason is tracking people and removing privacy.
Good parenting will do nothing to stop bills like this because it was never really about keeping kids safe.
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