Comment by jmclnx
2 days ago
One thing that I find interesting and has me wondering, it is this quote from the article I linked below:
>During the legislative window for AB 1043, none of the major open-source institutions submitted formal comment or testimony.
https://www.linuxteck.com/california-age-verification-law-li...
People are slowly realizing that the OSI, FSF, and Linux Foundation have become colonized by MBA flopouts, professional fleabags who jump from one 501(c)(3) to another, collecting a paycheck and laundering influence. If you took the board of the OSI, FSF, and Linux Foundation, and the boards of the World Wildlife Foundation, the ACLU, and the NRA, and scrambled them all, they would duly show up to work the next day and probably wouldn't notice anything beyond their desks being rearranged.
What do people think the chance is that someone from the OSI, FSF, or Linux Foundation WROTE this bill? Curious where people's mental models are at.
It’s ICMEC, supported by Meta, Google, and the Gates Foundation. And the Heritage Foundation.
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rr3f3n/followup_to_...
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rmhxk1/i_pulled_the...
So it's just Zuckerberg building a moat around Meta. Lovely.
Or maybe he's just anti-free-speech because people keep criticizing him. Hard to tell.
or maybe there's just, like, nothing actually wrong with this bill. It requires an age input on the user creation page, and that's it.
That's how it always starts. First they get a law in place, then they mutate the terms until it accomplishes what they ___actually___ wanted. For instance, first they give the federal government the ability to inspect citizens at the border because somehow, the 4th amendment doesn't apply. Then they define everything within 50 miles of the border a "special border zone" there the 4th amendment doesn't apply. Then later, it's 200 miles.
>What do people think the chance is that someone from the OSI, FSF, or Linux Foundation WROTE this bill?
I would not be surprised, but I think it is more likely these organizations are staying quiet due to "donations" from large corporations. Or tax deductible bribes. I know OSI and the Linux Foundation is owned by big tech, but the FSF surprises me.