On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 12:22:57PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 2026-03-06 11:41, Some Guy called wrote: > > Will Debian add age verification to comply with Californian laws? > > > > Looking forward to your answer! > > > > It's a ludicrous requirement. And open-source projects will result in a > fork, I'm sure. > > The authors of the law clearly understand very little about the subject > matter, or the privacy implications. That, or they understand fine and they > plan to abuse the rights of users. Either way, I sense a fork coming.
My take is that it is (and has always been) surveillance capitalism's wet dream. They paint themselves as "We vs Bureaucracy (aka The State)", but they *always* have been in bed with state. Since the 2000s, when this mess took off (if you count Oracle, since longer, mind you). Cheers -- t
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