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Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems
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I'm not saying I think it's going to be intentionally killed or taken down, my prediction is that everything is going to turn to garbage when bots are vastly outnumbering human users. And I think that unfortunately the only form of "captcha" that will be able to keep bots out at scale is some form of centrally issued human ID coupled with an unbroken cryptographic chain starting on hardware level. But I am of course talking only about larger public services, small invite-only private instances would definitely still be an option.