RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

I want everyone who says "this is the law, distros need to comply" I want you to explain a plausible set of circumstances to lead to the following:

* That the AG of California will sue a random Linux distro which has effectively no money
* Prove who the OS distributor actually is (is it the committers? Committers of what part? Their bank account with $12 in it?)
* Prove by preponderance of the evidence how many children used the OS in order to set the fines
* get a judge and jury to think this isn't a massive waste of their time
* That it isn't just a violation of the law but is a "negligent" or "intentional" violation
* all the while, the OS maker and everyone else having effectively zero knowledge of who uses it since there's no continuing relationship with users.

How does all of this happen?

@wwahammy Ironic that when I do a search for the developer making the PR the only thing I can find is him being doxed on Endchan. So that's two horrible things I learned about in the last five minutes.

Also, Andrew Cuomo killed Usenet while he was Attorney General of New York.
https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/07/ny-attorney-general-gets-more-isps-to-block-alt-newsgroups/

NY attorney general gets more ISPs to block alt.* newsgroups

New York's Attorney General has turned his initial efforts against online …

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