Colorado, Illinois, and New York could join the list if their proposed age verification bills pass.

MidnightBSD, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system, has quietly updated its README to reflect a new geographic restriction. The project has added a clause that bars residents of any country, state, or territory with OS-level age verification mandates from using MidnightBSD

  • Archr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    I’m sorry I am really not seeing what you are referencing from your link. This appears to be a link to the state administration manual which deals with how departments in the state of California operate.

    This does not appear to be a law especially when you look at the procedure for revising the SAM.

    Responsibility for updating SAM content is assigned to authoring state departments

    Ie. Not assembly members.

    Edit: sorry I didn’t respond to your second point. From the Cali law:

    1798.503(b) An operating system provider or a covered application store that makes a good faith effort to comply with this title, taking into consideration available technology and any reasonable technical limitations or outages, shall not be liable for an erroneous signal indicating a user’s age range or any conduct by a developer that receives a signal indicating a user’s age range.

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      1798.503(b) An operating system provider or a covered application store that makes a good faith effort to comply with this title, taking into consideration available technology and any reasonable technical limitations or outages, shall not be liable for an erroneous signal indicating a user’s age range or any conduct by a developer that receives a signal indicating a user’s age range.

      OR instead of having to collect that info at all you just put “OS not for cali” on the user agreement and just not deal with the risk.

      • Archr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        You are right. I have no additional response to this that would not make me sound like an asshole.

        • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
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          59 minutes ago

          What an odd thing to say. I do think that california based projects/products will try to follow (at least show an attempt) as you say but as big a market cali is there just is no reason for a OS (more so a donation funded linux one) to pander to one state.