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MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow

MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow - Lemmy NZ

>MidnightBSD, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system, has quietly updated its README to reflect a new geographic restriction. The project has added a clause that bars residents of any country, state, or territory with OS-level age verification mandates from using MidnightBSD

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Peruvian_Skies Mar 10

Speaking as a brazilian resident, the law will not be enforced. No such laws are ever enforced here. Everybody openly pirates everything, people sell retro gaming systems preloaded with thousands of ROMs openly online and in physical shops, and the government doesn’t even have 1% of the surveillance infrastructure needed to make enforcement attractive. The law is just electoral posturing and lip service to please evangelical idiots… but I repeat myself.

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lastlybutfirstly

This is different from pirating. The government will be going after the developers like they did Kim Dotcom.

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Peruvian_Skies Mar 11

Not the Brazilian government, is what I’m saying. At most they’ll tell ISPs to block a few websites, and they won’t comply without a judicial order. Our Supreme Court, STF, is actually sane unlike our legislators, so no such order will be given.