Quoth Achaean <[email protected]>: > On 3/13/26 9:35 PM, Zbigniew Kossowski wrote: > > OpenBSD Project will face with Age Verification API due to recent > > regulations in California and others. A proposition is to preserve right > > to turn an API on/off at will by a user/admin to fulfill the natural > > right to be not verified. I belive a part of the IT word will stay on > > the same positoion. > > regards ZKossowski > > > > Given that the current proposed requirements are self-attestation only > (No ID verification). Why not simply state that you must be of legal age > to use OpenBSD. >
This is bad as it'd prevent minors from using OpenBSD; they have the right to an uncensored non-spying OS, especially with the current political landscape. If we instead restrict this statement to only the countries rolling out age verification laws, this will quickly turn into the OpenBSD team playing accountant with all the countries that decide to implement this, รก la MidnightBSD: one or more people will have to dedicate their time to tracking each country's legalese so they can update OpenBSD's TOS to reflect the "current list of countries where the user has to be of legal age to use OpenBSD." Frankly, this sounds like a huge waste of time. IMO it's best we let this thread die out than to worry about a random law in a country OpenBSD doesn't operate in. > No API required. "Apps" assume user is legal age. > > If policy makers press the issue from there, it will: > > 1) Demonstrate that their intentions extend beyond the current stated > objective. Eg. It's the API they want, and they intend to abuse it later. > > 2) Potentially provide framing for a legal counter argument regarding > forcing community labour without compensation... Known in some > jurisdictions as slavery. > > I still cannot believe the audacity of these policy makers. Parents are > responsible for their children's behavior and activities not the state. > Not Us. That is not an oversimplification, sometimes laws are clearly > overreaching. This is one of those times. > -- > Achaean > TZ:Pacific > -- noodle
