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How Linux developers defeated the new OS age-verification laws (blazetrends.com)
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The coordinated effort worked. When lawmakers finalized Colorado SB26-051, they added Section 6-30-105(e) to the text. This specific clause waives compliance for operating systems and applications distributed under licenses that allow copying, modifying, and redistributing without platform-imposed technical restrictions. Why the Section 6-30-105(e) Exemption Protects Decentralized Tech

This exemption establishes a formal legislative precedent for the tech industry. It legally shields free and open-source operating systems from hardware-level age attestation laws that closed ecosystems like iOS and Windows will soon have to follow.

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I'm going to argue that you share it because one thing you can count on is very determined nerds to defeat it.

Every time legislators tried to enforce some sort of dystopian thing, developers saw it as damage and routed around it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    You're not wrong, security through obscurity eventually fails. In this case however, time counts, the longer it can be cut off, the more chance of some sanity returning, of backlash building politically. The time to route around is after a law is made, preferably as flawed a law as possible.

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