Adam Demasi2d ago

I didn’t think this needed to be said, but don’t make up conspiracy theories about Linux projects complying with the age verification laws. You’re frustrated like we all are, but you’re directing it at the party that has little power other than to implement it as minimally as possible.

Instead, contact the lawmakers that passed this without listening to groups such as the EFF, who warned them about how it affects platforms other than Apple and Google’s. There’s still time before the laws come into effect.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/ab-1043s-internet-age-gates-hurt-everyone

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A.B. 1043’s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone

EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Such mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They create unnecessary and unconstitutional barriers for adults and young people to access information and express themselves online. They hurt small and open-source...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Show threadOblomov2d ago
@kirb there was literally no need to implement anything.
Show threadben2d ago

@oblomov of course there was. How do you think it helps to pretend otherwise?

@kirb

Show threadOblomov2d ago
@benjamineskola @kirb no, there was not.
Show threadben2d ago

@oblomov how not? do you imagine that the law simply goes away if you wish hard enough, or do you think that people in (e.g.) california should simply be forced to use windows or macos instead?

@kirb

Show threadlou.2d ago

@benjamineskola @oblomov @kirb

Let them try to enforce it

Show threadben2d ago
@einsiedlerspiel I seem to keep making this point elsewhere, and so I’ll be blunt: if you are not the person against whom the law will be enforced, I don’t think it’s your place to say ‘let them try to enforce it’. You are demanding that others face the consequences on your behalf.
Show threadsu_liam2d ago
@benjamineskola @einsiedlerspiel If they’re looking to enforce their draconian little law against the people who don’t write the software implementing it, then: I am Spartacus. And I intend to remain so. Next time I go into California, I will take my laptop, that will remain illegally free of any such implementation. The belly of the beast. And yeah, I will continue to criticize people safe outside of the belly of the beast who chose to build the tools of repression.
Show threadben
@su_liam lol ok
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