Re: California law CA AB1043

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 2:22 PM Tomek CEDRO <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 8:01 PM Lucas Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 2/26/26 1:48 PM, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> > > How about refusing to bend to bureaucratic tyranny and respond with
> > > ban from the Open-Source side in such cases right from start? Give
> > > them finger and they will take the whole hand next.. unless it's the
> > > middle finger and blessing to build their communist utopia on their
> > > own. They can steal what is free but they cannot force us to work for
> > > them for free. Whole Open-Source community should stand united and
> > > strong against this nonsense.
> > >
> > > They for sure know reaction of the free crowd, and they have already
> > > planned some sort of business behind this. We are their asset, and our
> > > consent. Do not consent.
> > >
> > > Let thinking people leave and see what happens next. Socialism turns
> > > communism when there is no more other people money and there is no
> > > food left. We had that in Eastern Europe, but some people need to feel
> > > on their own four letters.
> > >
> > I'm not sure what that would even look like.  Do we make a new modified
> > BSD license that includes a clause preventing the use of software in any
> > jurisdiction with similar age verification laws?  If a developer is
> > outside the US, they can probably just ignore this. Inside the US,
> > without a clause banning use, I am concerned that I or say the freebsd
> > foundation could be sued or fined by the state of California.
>
> This looks like a planned hostile purge and takeover.
>
> They can introduce any law with zero accountability on their own.
>
> They can get whatever they want, without knowledge, skill, investment,
> effort, pure bureaucracy, making you work for free constantly
> threatened by unlimited new penalties and and constantly new
> regulations, so you jump as they please, not to prosper just to
> survive.
>
> No thinking people or company will stay there. Question is who comes
> next and why so cheap?
>
> --
> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
>
>
My 2c
  This looks totally unenforceable. The state for some odd reason decides
it worth its time and money to take an open-source project to court.
They would have to prove to a jury that the FreeBSD project provides a
platform that could harm minors and that it did so. We would be back to
[Kevin could] "start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone" sort of
nonesense arguments. A Public Library could be considered a dangerous place
for the same reason.


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