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.
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
