Re: California law CA AB1043
Chris <[email protected]>
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On 2026-02-26 10:48, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM Lucas Holt <[email protected]> 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? Atlas Shrugged! I didn't know anybody but me read that. Good on you! > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info --Chris
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