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California's age verification law is proving controversial — here's what you need to know, and why some Linux distros are in the firing line (www.techradar.com)

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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Relevant lines from the article:

If you look at the more niche Linux distros, they're run by small teams of enthusiasts who simply don't have the resources to tackle implementing the necessary systems and real-time API — it's just not going to happen. In those cases, as Tom's Hardware notes, their approach is likely to be labelling the OS as not intended for use in California.

And I don't see anyone in the firing line, except perhaps Californian citizens...

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bigger distros will need to add the prompt, and the path of least resistance is to add it upstream.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 weeks ago

Would be interesting to see though what would happen if e.g. the Debian project just said: "Naa, thanks, we are fine without". :-)

[–] eli@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

And I don’t see anyone in the firing line, except perhaps Californian citizens…

Which, what, Californians are gonna be IP/geo logged and blocked by distro websites from clicking the download button?

Oh no! Whatever will I do! torrents