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[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

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    [$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

    A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does n [...]

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/ #LWN #Linux #security #Debian

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    • lwn@fedi.lwn.netL lwn@fedi.lwn.net

      [$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

      A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does n [...]

      https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/ #LWN #Linux #security #Debian

      cstamp@mastodon.socialC This user is from outside of this forum
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      @lwn “ The page you have tried to view (California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions) is currently available to LWN subscribers only”

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      • lwn@fedi.lwn.netL lwn@fedi.lwn.net

        [$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

        A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does n [...]

        https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/ #LWN #Linux #security #Debian

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        @lwn Re: California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions.
        Guaranteed fail (:-)) We're missing the real point by miles.
        See https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/wrong-ban/

        The article is at https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1062112/edd5251c87eb120e/

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        • lwn@fedi.lwn.netL lwn@fedi.lwn.net

          [$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

          A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital Age Assurance Act does n [...]

          https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/ #LWN #Linux #security #Debian

          geert@society.oftrolls.comG This user is from outside of this forum
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          @lwn “So the first thing Linus would have to do would be to write an age verifier, before he started printing "A" and "B" from separate threads.”
          https://lwn.net/Articles/1062883

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            @lwn “So the first thing Linus would have to do would be to write an age verifier, before he started printing "A" and "B" from separate threads.”
            https://lwn.net/Articles/1062883

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            @geert @lwn yeah, brave new world 😞

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              @lwn “ The page you have tried to view (California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions) is currently available to LWN subscribers only”

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              yep that's what the "[$]" means

              CC: @lwn@lwn.net
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