The watchword of activism lately is “overreact, Chicken Little style”. ∃ a *lot* of acorns falling & we're all getting hit in the head constantly. They'll be more.

But the sky isn't falling; we just have some extremely wealthy opponents to defeat.

The latest acorn came from California: CA AB 1403 (Digital Assurance Act).

@jzb wrote a well-researched article:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1062112/8b61114c8182edea/

#SFC is writing a comprehensive statement on the law for publication in ≈ 1 month.

#FOSS #OpenSource #CAAB1403

California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-syste [...]

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