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Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems
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this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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I mean how would they not exempt FOSS, short of individually policing the software installed on every individual personal system or instituting new hardware requirements and making the use of non-compliant hardware criminal?
Quit giving them ideas!