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Comment by gonzalohm | original | California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
[−]gonzalohm · 2026-08-30 Sun 11:20 UTC · link
How do you ban access to a website based on the OS of the user?
[−]mirashii · 2026-08-30 Sun 11:28 UTC · link
By requiring hardware attestation, like Private Access Tokens in iOS/MacOS (see https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-... for example) and Web Environment Integrity and its successors ( https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-In... ).
[−]gonzalohm · 2026-08-30 Sun 12:08 UTC · link
That sounds horrible
[−]teddyh · 2026-08-30 Sun 12:48 UTC · link
You don’t say. Here are some things to radicalize you:

• 2012: <https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-w...>

• 2003: <https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/>

• 1997: <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html.en>

[−]cyanydeez · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:26 UTC · link
1980: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/enterprise-and-socie...
[−]inigyou · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:38 UTC · link
According to the existing law, Facebook can't provide service to any user whose OS doesn't say they're old enough. According to this new law, Linux won't say that. So Linux users won't be allowed to use Facebook.