Zippo Test
Zippo Test
Posted Mar 12, 2026 6:09 UTC (Thu) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648)Parent article: California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
Non-interactive websites generally can't be bound by laws of states outside the website's home jurisdiction, unless they are specifically targeting harmful actions toward a remote jurisdiction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction_in_In...
Bottom line, if you're a noncommercial distro, go shatter any download mirrors located in the People's Republic of California, and you should be good to ignore this. I doubt noncommercial distros will have to geoblock California. Maybe they'll want to -- I kind of do -- but they don't have to. Now, go get legal advice, go talk to a real lawyer, all of that, of course. But, I'm probably right.
