How do they even enforce this anyway. Say me from Oklahoma come to the state of Colorado with my laptop will I be violating the law by not having that on my operating system?
Mixed feelings on this.
I’m glad Linux is getting the exemption the community has so vocally shouted for. Maybe this will finally drive the “Year of the Linux Desktop”.
But I worry that this is just them slowly cranking up the temp to cook the frog. The boil is still coming, just slightly slower to prevent us from jumping out of the pot, ya know?
Suppose we’ll see.
Yeah, even if they exempt it, commercial platforms may push for using a machine that can verify age, reducing Linux machines to hobbyist only activities.
I almost wish California had stuck to their guns and the tech industry had pulled the plug on the whole state. Making an exception is not as good of a teacher for your neighbours as burning your own house down.
They would’ve just made it the default for everyone. This is borderline accelerationism; it’s better to not burn down the house. They weren’t going to learn shit, it would’ve just spread and gotten worse from there.
Think of all the great stuff that’s banned and restricted right now. Do you see people learning lessons?
