Let's hope other states follow suit...

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[–] 36 points 2 months ago (4 children)

My tinfoil hat is telling me they’ll do this to make an outlaw of Linux and block it from services and sites. I hope my hat is wrong.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Keep that tinfoil hat close, I have a feeling Digital identification laws and ReadID technologies are actually moving the internet away from user anonymity, enabling a framework where users can be tied to real-world identities and easily sanctioned.

    Make a post on the internet that someone objects to? boom, you just lost access to all your bank accounts.

    I mean people connected to Peter Thiel are already bragging how they would love to do that

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's physically impossible to "outlaw Linux". That would mean outlawing the entirety of "The Cloud™".

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You understand this was in the context of the user's side.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    How would you even legislate that? "You can only use Linux if you're a registered business"? And how hard is it to register a one-person business in the US?

    "You can only use Linux if your business has over X number of employees"? So make a non-profit business that "hires" anyone who wants to use Linux.

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