When Linux becomes illegal, only outlaws will run Linux.

Finally torrenting linux ISO’s will no longer work as an euphemism for pirating.

Governments can't even effectively tackle drugs, illegal weapons or CSAM. Gl making something as distributed as linux illegal.

Fuck em.

Just sounds like they want to force you to have operating systems that monitor you at every turn.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!

More of a reason to use Linux. Fuck the tyrants.

I hear the latest efforts (mainly from the System76 guy) to counter bad bills about age verification/attestation have brought amendments to exempt open source operating systems, in at least one jurisdiction.

So the pedo-cabal's plan to protect our children (by doxing them), has a gaping hole in it.

Oh however will the pedo-cabal manage to protect our children now?

:3

At least in the US there's precedent that source code is protected speech, so we may see the year of the Gentoo desktop.

Dude can you all stop with this nonsense, all servers are run on linux, they will never be illegal!

Would be very funny if we manage to eliminate Linux OS distributions on the internet before we eliminate CSAM on the internet.

I'm not holding my breath on either.

Fuck 'em.

If I can touch it, I can own it.

Sounds like we should cause a bit of mayhem prior to that point 😈

Jokes on them. I'm a pirate who likes Linux.

They can pry it out of my solid state drives 😤

"When I go to [do normal, totally uncontroversial thing]... and [nonsensical catastrophe that I made up in my head happens]."

Then I'll die an outlaw

then you move to gentoo, BSD or retro computing using existing cds/floppies/usbs

No it's not.

They can't really make linux illegal. They'll make selling devices without age verification illegal. Essentially making selling devices with an OS that doesn't play ball illegal.

Do it. Make the outernet. I'm sure you'll do a much better job of controlling it then