Colorado's "age-attestation" bill left the House committee with new exemptions for open-source operating systems, applications, code repositories, and containerized software distribution, reports the blog Linuxiac: [The bill] focuses on operating system providers and application stores. Its main re...
  • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I worry that if we get lots of diff jurisdictions with diff laws, it may be easiest for an OS to comply iwth the most strict of them.

    Lax ones don’t require age verification, but also don’t forbid it. Strict ones require it. You can comply with both at once.

    Maybe doesn’t matter if you can easily bypass the age check. Which is true at the present time. But things like this, they often slip-slope into more KYC style of hard to get around. All it takes is a horrible event all over the headlines. If it “could have been stopped” with stricter measures, they’ll come. Once you have a hammer, all problems are nails.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      I worry that if we get lots of diff jurisdictions with diff laws, it may be easiest for an OS to comply iwth the most strict of them.

      i used to work for an online gaming company and the rules that we applied for the europe were set by gdpr because they were the strictest at the time.

  • plz1@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    This is good news. Better news would be dropping the bill, but at least this won’t hurt FOSS.