Thursday, March 05, 2026

Re: URGENT: Age Verification Laws

On Thursday, March 5th, 2026 at 09:11, Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 04:29:05AM +0000, Hans Baeker wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I don't remember any "adult" packages in
> > OpenBSD, but I might have missed something. If I were to try
> > to enter "pkg_add adult_content" to see would I get anything
> > but a "Can't find adult_content"?
>
> Both youtube-dl and yt-dlp feature modules designed to be able to download
> videos from a variety of porn sites, as exemplified by
> pkglocate porn
>
> ;)
>

That is true, but the legislation appears to be about installing age-inappropriate apps, not about accessing content over the Internet.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and I have no idea how lawyers might twist the rather clear wording of the legislation to make it apply to something other than what it says.

Hans

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