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Linux is Getting a Free Pass on Age Verification in California and Colorado (itsfoss.com)
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Other open source software gets similar treatment, with Colorado going as far as explicitly excluding code repositories and container platforms.

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[โ€“] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not exactly. They can always take this one step further and make it more difficult to use anything but closed OSs for fundamental applications, like banking. It could come via an ID requirement where authentication goes through some complicated process with proprietary hardware and drivers.

[โ€“] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

These laws should hopefully be struck down as unconstitutional because of their invasion of privacy(a violation of the 3rd and 4th amendments) and a general violation of the first amendment.