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  • CA bill No. 1043 age verification

    From bbsing@VERT/LUNAROUT to All on Sun Mar 8 22:42:35 2026
    Has anyone seen this bill?!

    I hear in addtional to California, other states are adopting similar bills.

    Seems like the defined OS in the bill doesn't consider the general purpose nature of general purpose computers.

    My C64 is going to have problems specially when I receive a firmware update on my 1541-UII :(

    Any thoughts on this.

    Do you think this equates to a form of user abuse?

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to bbsing on Tue Mar 10 02:17:09 2026
    Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
    By: bbsing to All on Sun Mar 08 2026 10:42 pm

    Has anyone seen this bill?!

    I hear in addtional to California, other states are adopting similar
    bills.

    Seems like the defined OS in the bill doesn't consider the general
    purpose nature of general purpose computers.

    My C64 is going to have problems specially when I receive a firmware
    update on my 1541-UII :(

    Any thoughts on this.

    i think you're safe.
    it's something real stupid and i'm not surprised. california is the retard capital of the usa now. you dont even have to prove your age.

    If they want to protect children lockup pedophiles for life.


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  • From bbsing@VERT/LUNAROUT to MRO on Tue Mar 10 22:44:07 2026
    Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
    By: MRO to bbsing on Tue Mar 10 2026 02:17:09

    Hi MRO,

    Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
    I hear in addtional to California, other states are adopting similar bills.
    i think you're safe.
    it's something real stupid and i'm not surprised. california is the retard capital of the usa now. you dont even have to prove your age.

    If they want to protect children lockup pedophiles for life.

    I have heard some OS distributions Anarchy linux, also thinks the bill is stupid.

    Midnight BSD, is just updating their license info to exclude states and countries adopting such bills/laws.

    system76 is thinking, same as many others.

    I was really hoping they would just say go to hell with such laws, and exercise basic civil dispobedence. That concept has proven effective in the past.

    I haven't heard much from OS users also to be effected by such a bill.

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