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Comment by johnnyanmac | original | California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
[−]johnnyanmac · 2026-08-30 Sun 09:01 UTC · link
To use your metaphor, this is saying that a store needs to limit you to the kids section if it is told you are a kid at the door. The exemption here is because a park doesn't have doors to perform this check onto.

(PS. I'd hope we were past trying to hamfist physical metaphors to describe the digital landscape. But alas).

[−]andai · 2026-08-30 Sun 12:25 UTC · link
Well, maybe cigarettes were a silly metaphor -- can my kids still get their porn at the Linux store?

Are the gore websites gonna have to ask for ID now? What about 4chan? Or is the whole point to get rid of all that stuff and just get everyone using Facebook instead? (They're the ones who pushed these laws right?)

I'm honestly trying to understand what the big picture is here.