This just proves the entire bill is fucking stupid if they can do this.
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This is good news. Better news would be dropping the bill, but at least this won't hurt FOSS.
I want this bill dead not compromised.
I worry that if we get lots of diff jurisdictions with diff laws, it may be easiest for an OS to comply iwth the most strict of them.
Lax ones don't require age verification, but also don't forbid it. Strict ones require it. You can comply with both at once.
Maybe doesn't matter if you can easily bypass the age check. Which is true at the present time. But things like this, they often slip-slope into more KYC style of hard to get around. All it takes is a horrible event all over the headlines. If it "could have been stopped" with stricter measures, they'll come. Once you have a hammer, all problems are nails.
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How about instead the parents decide? I can let me kid use the computer for as long or as little as I want. Cars have no age verification. Simply driving as a minor is not allowed. I get to train my kid to drive or go to driving school. Thus a computer simply needs me to be root and for I to establish my own control and destructions. If the law says you can't be on the internet as a minor, then fine I can restrict the internet access. Otherwise a computer is just a fancy calculator.
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The amendment is here, page 6.
With the wording of "without restriction", the GPL could be arguably "too restrictive". Well, probably for a court to decide. I guess 9front is safe regardless...
No shit finally good news
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