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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

We need to divest from big tech. We can't have our lives leveraged by companies for more concessions from us. What is even left to concede?

[-] Triasha@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Sexual slavery, chattel slavery, blood sports.

None of these is that far off.

Big tech read cyberpunk dystopias and thought they were instruction manuals.

It can definitely get worse.

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