@nixCraft Personally this is the direction I'm hoping all distros go in. We know Microslop and Apple will just cowtow to the requirement (primarily because they want it too).

But for Linux distros, just make it so the license is unusable in CA. Problem solved.

@nixCraft the censorship in the UK and California is dystopian and out of control

@nixCraft There could be ways to skip this somehow? Like a new OS that doesnt need that age verification.... Im not into informatics but im learning..

Instead of education, they want to monitor us. This is just a trial for bigger data recopilation.

I wonder if we can avoid the new law by tweaking the distro enough so it's not considered an "OS."
Can we split it into sections the user then compiles?

@nixCraft Thanks Gavin Newsom!

@nixCraft how epic, 2026 and we finally have a valid reason to torrent all those Linux / BSD images 😁

@nixCraft just wait a few years and that will be everywhere. Age verification (which is almost certainly coming, globally) might just push non-corporate-sponsored OSes out of the market entirely

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It isn't age verification garbage by some dummy politicians.

It is an evil scam to further normalize privacy erosions, entrench established power and complete the authoritarian controls of the corporate serfdom system we call a government.

Know your enemy. They are far more organized and focused on power than anyone gives them credit for.

@nixCraft omg what does it have to do with installing OS

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VPN?

@nixCraft is this real? 😳😱

@nixCraft That's not 100% accurate - they're showing a warning but I don't think they're actively blocking anything? So it's more like the typical American legal bullcrap.

@nixCraft The world has gone completely nuts.