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thayneyesterday at 9:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's more likely to be an issue for distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc.

Although, if I'm understanding this correctly, I think all they would have to do to comply is have something during installation that asks for the age category, and write a file that is world readable, but only writable by root that contains that category that applications can read.


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Brian_K_Whiteyesterday at 10:10 PM

That is already way too much as far as I'm concerned. It's not that it's difficult, it's that it's arbitrary and a form of commanded speech or action. Smallness and easiness isn't an excuse.

If you write a story, there must be a character in it somewhere that reminds kids not to smoke. That's all. It's very easy.

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iamnothereyesterday at 10:20 PM

And then another state will pass a law mandating scanning of all local images, and another state will want automated scanning of text, and a different country will want a backdoor for law enforcement. We have to stop this here and now.