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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

1028 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 6:19 PM • 457 comments • view on HN

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nikhilpareek13 • yesterday at 8:31 PM

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cboyardee • yesterday at 8:09 PM

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fleroviumna • yesterday at 9:42 PM

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wetpaws • yesterday at 6:41 PM

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grigio • yesterday at 9:23 PM

next step age-verification at BIOS/EFI level /s

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zeroCalories • yesterday at 6:46 PM

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panny • yesterday at 7:27 PM

And I bet that Microsoft employee who was sending PRs to all the linux distros (and systemd) will not bother sending apologies to them for wasting their time.

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7e • yesterday at 7:57 PM

Why should Linux be exempt? Linux lobbyists seem to be against the public good. It takes an AI agent 5 minutes to add this feature and then they add be good forevermore. And given that the software is open source, everyone can use the same library to be compliant. Belly-aching snowflakes…

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jamesgill • today at 12:36 AM

Linux was always exempt--because it's not an operating system.

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