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

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
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    7 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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      6 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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        4 hours 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.