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MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow (itsfoss.com)
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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

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[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 81 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That may be the best way to deal with the potential legal liabilities introduced by this unmitigated abject idiocy.

Good thing everybody can still torrent whatever they want from where ever they want. Or use IPFS. Or IRC DCC. Or Usenet. Or just a VPN.

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