Skullgrid comments on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Certainly. They set the precedent that open source software should capitulate immediately to any authoritarian demand.

EDIT : I guess people haven't read facing fascism :

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/revoluciana-facing-fascism-sabotage

specifically https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/revoluciana-facing-fascism-sabotage#toc3

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[–] notSys@lemmy.cafe -4 points 2 weeks ago

Fascism is when I can input fake birth date into my init system

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[+] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works -7 points 2 weeks ago

What a shocker, such an optional date field indeed seems like a grave menace to all of the freedoms. You should make a merge request with an optional field for an user's income, so that we may hunt the billionares and exterminate that vvermin with such powerful optional fields.

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