{"id":16021,"date":"2026-02-27T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=16021"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:35:35","slug":"midnightbsd-responds-to-californias-age-verification-law-by-excluding-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/midnightbsd-responds-to-californias-age-verification-law-by-excluding-california\/","title":{"rendered":"MidnightBSD Responds to California&#8217;s Age Verification Law by Excluding California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And so it begins. Worth pointing out that Colorado is trying to pass similar legislation, and it&#8217;s not a coincidence that the fine is the same, $7,500 per violation which is just ridiculous. There is a storm of these age verification laws swirling all over the world and creeping in via states, all to make such a mess that you&#8217;d have to think it&#8217;s to make digital ID palatable to society. And with the Chat Control legislation of the EU, where they want a mandatory agentic AI system as part of your OS to keep tabs on you leading to the Mark of the Beast system for the coming AI superintelligence, they&#8217;re really targeting opensource operating systems where they don&#8217;t have megacorp control, though IBM\/Red Hat is working to replace X.Org with Wayland to bring the agentic AI hooks into Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MidnightBSD Responds to California&#039;s Age Verification Law by Excluding California\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4qu5-tXVSGw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so it begins. Worth pointing out that Colorado is trying to pass similar legislation, and it&#8217;s not a coincidence that the fine is the same, $7,500 per violation which is just ridiculous. There is a storm of these age verification laws swirling all over the world and creeping in via states, all to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16022,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions\/16022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}