When Linux becomes illegal, only outlaws will run Linux.
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2026
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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
National security concerns π
Laws are for the poor, they don't apply to the rich.
Also, Android and Chrome OS are Linux distros.
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The only way to stop a bad guy with Linux is with a good guy with Linux
Come join my outlaw gang. We have pie.
Pi. Raspberry pi.
My raspberry pi is a wifi hotspot. Its SSID is CreamPi
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!
Hell, if only they made Linux open source so that we could change anything we didn't like about the age verification stuff.
And be denied access to services
If a service requires it they are not worth using.
Yes, freedom requires giving up some things.
Finally torrenting linux ISOβs will no longer work as an euphemism for pirating.
Governments can't even effectively tackle drugs, illegal weapons or CSAM. Gl making something as distributed as linux illegal.
Dude can you all stop with this nonsense, all servers are run on linux, they will never be illegal!
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 ππππ
W3m ftw
Fuck em.
Thats the spirit.
Fuck 'em.
If I can touch it, I can own it.
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.
I hear the latest efforts (mainly from the System76 guy) to counter bad bills about age verification/attestation have brought amendments to exempt open source operating systems, in at least one jurisdiction.
So the pedo-cabal's plan to protect our children (by doxing them), has a gaping hole in it.
Oh however will the pedo-cabal manage to protect our children now?
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Yeah they'll drop this as soon as they realise The Dreaded Kali Linux Hacker OS System is open source tbh. First cyber attack, they'll realise they didnt know the owner of the malicious device's age, cry on TV then amend the law to include it.
Meanwhile the number of school shootings will remain the same, foster care systems will be underfunded, but the children will be rendered safe.
Remind me, if everyone is a child until proven otherwise as implemented by discord etc, are they still allowed to collect my data when I dont age verify? Can I sue them for collecting what could have been a toddlers information as they couldn't possibly have known I wasn't one?
Its all so fucking stupid.
Same here. I originally wanted something big and complex, but I went with Linux Mint. I am quite comfortable with mint. I might move up to Fedora (while literally wearing a fedora...).
It is fucking insane how they're so intense in their authoritarianism while somehow claiming to be all about freedom. Palantir's technological republic post is really fucking insane, claiming that public officials need to be absolutely above criticism (thus giving THEM the only right to privacy) while the rest of us need a microscope attached to every aspect of our lives.
Do it. Make the outernet. I'm sure you'll do a much better job of controlling it then
Then I'll die an outlaw
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.
More of a reason to use Linux. Fuck the tyrants.
They can pry it out of my solid state drives π€
Sounds like we should cause a bit of mayhem prior to that point π
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)
then you move to gentoo, BSD or retro computing using existing cds/floppies/usbs
They can't really make linux illegal. They'll make selling devices without age verification illegal. Essentially making selling devices with an OS that doesn't play ball illegal.
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