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I wish larger and more popular distros like arch, debian or mint would take a stand aswell. I get ubuntu or fedora having to comply as these are run by american companies, but debian and mint opinion would probably have major sway over the entire ecosystem
They’re being the adults in the room by seeking legal guidance and not prematurely putting their foot in their mouth. We must be patient. The penalties on some of these laws could be fatal, even to the biggest foss players.
And what would those penalties be? If you are not based in the country having these moronic laws, they can’t do shit (see: fines for 4chan in the UK, fines for Google in Russia), except maybe ‘banning’ your distro, which amounts to nothing, since whoever is determined enough can just find it online anyways.
I think they’d just rather not find out. Or, rather, would like to be as prepared as possible to “get away with” not implementing it, or will find some middle way.
The hardliners here will complain that they’re not saying “fuck you” to The Man forcefully enough. In reality, they do that just by existing. These guys are the backbone of digital sovereignty. If some of them fold and comply in advance, then yeah, fuck them in particular, but let the others cook. They’re fighting for survival, not engaging in fan service.
The weird thing about this is that this wouldn’t be against any law anywhere, except the state of California… So, why wouldn’t this be adequately solved by not giving a fuck?
Because America runs off of shirking responsibility to blame someone else: using precedents as loopholes to not have to argue a case.
1 state does it: 25 others follow suit immediately and it gets insta-passed because “there is a precedent”. See: flock cameras, Bibles in schools, book banning, abortion banning, sweeping climate protection rollbacks, etc… Once one does it, the rest of the cowards use it as a shield like children: “B-B-But theeey doooo iiiit!”
Several more states have introduced/passed similar legislation already, so it’s becoming more of a problem; or see Brazil’s law.