Other open source software gets similar treatment, with Colorado going as far as explicitly excluding code repositories and container platforms.
Its not enough. Eradicate the bills.
It’s not really a win though. It just means Linux will get blocked by platforms.
Fuck the platforms. We’ll make our own.
We’re literally on one “we” made on our own right now. So yeah, exactly, we’ll make our own. With blackjack… and hookers. In fact forget the platforms.
The fun part of open source is that someone smarter than me will inevitably just update the existing spoofing tools to include whatever checks those platforms are using.
oh wow gee thank you for not… [checks notes]… forcing open source developers to write state mandated spyware without compensation
“Thank you for not forcing me to participate in your getting-kicked-in-the-balls program… But perhaps just don’t?”
I would not accuse the legislators of any decency of thought only that open source would be far harder to police due to its more nebulous and intermingled path to the client with far less money at the end of it.
There may have also been some big money lobbyists from companies like Google, Amazon, etc, that pointed out how much money it would have cost their poor shareholders to implement.
The entire dynamic is off somehow, so age verification is for the safety of children but won’t be implemented on some platforms for reasons that are by extension more pressing than child safety, as if such reasons might exist. It is almost like age verification is actually nothing to do with child safety.
Ding ding
