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Comment by mirashii | original | California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

[−]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...