How Linux developers defeated the new OS age-verification laws

Behind or ahead? Maybe we shouldn't respect the laws they make?

What phone?

I am very glad that you have strategically selected which parts of your mind to lose.

Google qr code = Ctrl+W and never visiting your site again.

How some Linux developers defeated (for now) the new OS age-verification laws. Long live those Linux developers, who "heavily criticized the mandates", made public statements, and contacted the legislators.

Because other Linux developers, instead, immediately bent over backwards to start implementing changes towards accommodating those laws; for sure they didn't heavily criticize the mandates, nor make public statements, nor contact the legislators.

They defeated one of the laws in one jurisdiction. The California law is still in place, international laws are still in place, and federal laws are being advanced.

Can you give a source for this?

I'm presuming the QR uses the advertiser ID, which can be changed.

Phone number would be GDPR, so I don't think that can be used.

Honestly the faster they try to lock us out of the web the sooner we can get a second, freer web with card games and prostitution.

They are very aware of the open source issues and working on getting changes implemented during the current legislative session.

There is no 'open source issues'.

There is an absurd law issue that cannot be solved through 'exemptions' (which can always be removed later on) but by completely getting rid of the law itself. These are bad laws that aim to kill online privacy, with or without exemptions for our dear open source/Libre software.

Yup. VERY easy soultion.

"Like putting too much air in a balloon!"

i just don't want to live on this shitty planet anymore :/

So just like the old net before Google, Meta and Amazon

If you're providing it "voluntarily" it won't fall foul of GDPR.

I'm not in a GPDR jurisdiction, but if memory serves, is there not some clause preventing service providers for compelling me to "willingly" provide information to access the service, similar to a "duress" situation?