Re: California law CA AB1043

+1

Ignore this bullshit.



Temat: Re: California law CA AB1043
Data: 2026-02-26 19:49
Nadawca: "Tomek CEDRO" <[email protected]>
Adresat: "Lucas Holt" <[email protected]>; 
DW: [email protected]; 

> 
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM Lucas Holt
 wrote:
>>
>> California is requiring age verification checks for account creation
at
>> the OS level with a signal API to provide information to
applications in
>> 2027.  They explicitly call out individual developers or companies
with
>> fines of 2500 dollars per child affected.
>>
>> I wondered if anyone has started looking into this on the FreeBSD
side.
>> The way I read this, we would need to implement changes when
creating
>> accounts, provide a mechanism to check from apps (library), and
provide
>> support within package managers to filter apps?  Then browsers would
>> need to implement this and call the respective OS APIs for age
>> verification for desktop use.
>>
>> It seems like it makes sense for multiple *NIX systems to implement
a
>> similar mechanism across platforms.
>>
>> The paragraph near the bottom seems to indicate that it wouldn't
apply
>> to server use since indirect signals aren't required to be honored.
>>
>> For reference:
>>
>> https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3269704
> 
> 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.
> 
> Who is John Galt?
> 
> --
> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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