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MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow (itsfoss.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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MidnightBSD, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system, has quietly updated its README to reflect a new geographic restriction. The project has added a clause that bars residents of any country, state, or territory with OS-level age verification mandates from using MidnightBSD

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[–] 10 points 6 months ago

You're right to give that warning, but Brazil isn't a surveillance state like China or the USA. Our demons are different.

Of course, that could change in the future so a law like this shouldn't stand regardless.

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