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Update on the Colorado Age Attestation bill: Everyone that participated in the meeting last week submitted proposed changes to the bill. They included good ideas to improve consumer protection and privacy and exempt open source software.

Sen. Ball responded this morning that they'll now draft potential amendments.

I think we're making good progress. I'm off for a ski weekend with the kids. Have a great weekend everyone!

Today, I met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051.

Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility.

Amendments are expected for the CA age attestation bill. It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence excluding open source in the CA bill amendments.

No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.

@ojonnysilva yes, anonymity can also provide protection.

Perhaps the most perverse consequence of age verification laws: many require advertising the age bracket of the user to the open web. Children will be known to be children even to those that would exploit that information without regard for any other "safety" law.

@bennypl it's just the soup du jour in capitals at the moment.

The system76 position on age attestation and verification laws:

System76 on Age Verification Laws

Liberty has costs, but it's worth it.

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