California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by Bender on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @04:49PM (#48285765)

I disagree. Restricted To Adults means Restricted To Adults. The header can literally be used on any website that one is self describing as for adults. One could put it on a site that sells firearms for example. It could be applied to a siteThere are no restrictions. Team Dang could put it on news.ycombinator.com if they so desired. There is nothing and nobody that could stop them. I put it on my blogs even though there is no porn. The header can be used on anything that serves up HTTP and the meta tag can be put on any HTML page that may not be appropriate for children.

Here [1] is the only external link that is relevant and don't take their banner out of context. This was originally by the adult entertainment industry to self label and self regulate but is now used on any site that is not appropriate for minors. Entertainment could be inappropriate humor for example. That does require porn. I would link to some inappropriate humor but that would be inappropriate.

"The RTA Label is free to use, voluntary, and universally available to any website that wishes to clearly and effectively label itself as being inappropriate for viewing by minors."

[1] - https://www.rtalabel.org/page.php

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Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by Ajedi32 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:23AM (#48309365)

Okay, you're right, I'm overstating my case. Realistically though, in the vast majority of cases where that tag is used it's used for porn. Trying to re-purpose such a tag to label all content that isn't strictly kid friendly isn't viable. (And again, it's not granular, and a blacklist rather than whitelist, which isn't ideal for this use case.)

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