Eric Schultz3d ago

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

US government in 1996: strong encryption is a munition and you can go to prison for years if you export

FOSS engineers: hey so only use this if you're in the US but we'll give instructions for how to do it otherwise 😉

California in 2026: we're passing a law that allows the AG to sue OS providers in civil court if they don't implement age verification in order to restrict Apple, Google, Facebook and the worst companies in the world.

FOSS Engineers: OMG THEY MIGHT COME AFTER OUR LINUX LAPTOP VENDORS WHO HAVE LIKE 3 TOTAL CUSTOMERS WE SHOULD HAVE IMPLEMENTED AGE GATING YESTERDAY I PROMISE WE'RE NOT CHALLENGING YOUR AUTHORITY GOVERNOR NEWSOM

Show threadPointlessOne 2d ago

@wwahammy are any of the devs even in California?

I remember illegal numbers (it was not that long ago actually) when people went out of their way to meme in the face of law.

Show threadBecca

@pointlessone i get the impression these are corporate devs astroturfing

and this highlights exactly why FOSS and capitalism are incompatible

because there is no Freedom under capitalism

@wwahammy

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Show threadCassandrich1d ago
@bweller @pointlessone @wwahammy The guy who did these PRs looks like he's trying to get hired by DOGE 2.0.