California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

Re:California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption fro... by shevy-java on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:51AM (#49497197)

Precisely. Courts will find that the situation where Linux users are exempt from the law, whereas Windows users have to submit their ID and any other personal data, can not be maintained, so Linux users will also be forced to give up their ID before being able to access the internet. This will also first come via commercial distributions (perhaps it can not be enforced by independent linux users, but the law need not necessarily work for 100%, could be 95%, and the rest are declared as breaking the law).

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Re:California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption fro... by lern_too_spel on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:03AM (#49497276)

This law does not require non Linux users to give up their ID to use the Internet, so why would they make Linux users do so?

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Re:California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption fro... by alexnewman on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:39AM (#49497466)

Totally agree. After the next big cyber attack, ganna have to kyc to access internet. It will be “for our safety”. Luckily now with ai the world doesn’t need me as a programmer so I’m just ganna stop using computers if they go full facist

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Re:California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption fro... by AnimalMuppet on Sunday August 30, 2026 @08:35AM (#49498118)

Why do you think the next big cyberattack is going to have that effect, when the last N did not?

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Re:California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption fro... by alexnewman on Sunday September 06, 2026 @09:15PM (#49592683)

I mean the big one

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Re:California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption fro... by nickdurfe on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:37PM (#49500877)

This is pure speculation. You can't possibly predict what courts are going to decide in the future. And the Digital Age Assurance Act doesn't "force a user to give up ID to access the Internet", it requires age information to be collected during creation of a user account on a system.

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