When Linux becomes illegal, only outlaws will run Linux.
When Linux becomes illegal the internet ceases to exist. Show me 1 Windows or Mac powered network switch, router, edge firewall you’ve ever known. I’ll wait
oh they’ll put a clause that allows for that, but only if it’s made in America and has a locked down bootloader…
Just realized that would mean FLOCK dies. -several thousand downsides, but that- THAT would be an upside.
You assume Flock was ever legal in the first place
Also, Android and Chrome OS are Linux distros.
Aren’t they mostly based on some sort of BSD (at least the smaller ones)? Would probably still not be legal in that scenario but I gotta be pedantic…
Oh they don’t want to ban linux. Just make you verify ID on OS level.
Big server hosts can do that on linux too.
Come join my outlaw gang. We have pie.
Pi. Raspberry pi.
My raspberry pi is a wifi hotspot. Its SSID is CreamPi
The only way to stop a bad guy with Linux is with a good guy with Linux
I am curious how they will ask for ID for each IOT devices ? Does a ring 0 micro linux need an ID before loading th OS ?
Governments can’t even effectively tackle drugs, illegal weapons or CSAM. Gl making something as distributed as linux illegal.
Finally torrenting linux ISO’s will no longer work as an euphemism for pirating.
Just sounds like they want to force you to have operating systems that monitor you at every turn.
Explicitly yes. With a side bonus that their donors are enriched.
Palantir is hungry.
Dude can you all stop with this nonsense, all servers are run on linux, they will never be illegal!
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The laws generally apply to devices that connect to the internet and run an OS, excluding simple appliances or legacy offline systems. Smartphones and Tablets: (iOS, Android) Personal Computers: (Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Linux distributions with GUIs that connect to the internet)
Means just use Linux without GUI and you have a bypass smh 🙂🙂👍👍
Fuck em.
Thats the spirit.
Fuck 'em.
If I can touch it, I can own it.
At least in the US there’s precedent that source code is protected speech, so we may see the year of the Gentoo desktop.
Compiled code ought to be too then tbh.
sigh LinuxFromScratch desktop evenually? See yall on the other side guys, good luck to us all (we’ll need it TT)
Would be very funny if we manage to eliminate Linux OS distributions on the internet before we eliminate CSAM on the internet.
I’m not holding my breath on either.
The CSAM guys are the very ones attacking Linux.
“When I go to [do normal, totally uncontroversial thing]… and [nonsensical catastrophe that I made up in my head happens].”
There are a lot of bills that threaten privacy and could, if taken to a logical conclusion, result in the criminalizaion of open-source operating systems. This isn’t as nonsensical as it was ten years ago. I think it’s still very unlikely, but it’s been moved into the realm of “reasonable possibility.”
Sounds like we should cause a bit of mayhem prior to that point 😈
Then I’ll die an outlaw
They can pry it out of my solid state drives 😤
then you move to gentoo, BSD or retro computing using existing cds/floppies/usbs
Do it. Make the outernet. I’m sure you’ll do a much better job of controlling it then
