Mastodawn

Ageless Linux is one of the sharpest responses I've seen to OS level age verification.

It takes Debian, flips the script, and makes a blunt point: if lawmakers force operating systems to hand age signals to apps, the burden will not land evenly. Apple and Google can absorb it. Smaller Linux projects, indie developers, and open source communities get crushed by compliance.

That is not child safety. That is infrastructure creep.

Read it here: https://goblincorps.com/ageless-linux.html.

Do laws like this protect children, or normalise surveillance by default?

#Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #DigitalRights #AgeVerification

This one is grounded in the article's protest framing, the California Bill text, and EFF's warning about compliance moats.

Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

PrivacyDigest 55m ago

Should #socialmedia apps be banned for children? - CSMonitor.com

But in the shire town of Murwillumbah, just a kangaroo hop from the Gold Coast on #Australia ’s eastern edge, Mr. Kakanis’ students had shrugged off the social media ban. Only three teens out of 25 had any of their accounts disabled. Two were on #Snapchat and the other was on #Instagram.
#ageverification #privacy #security

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0327/social-media-ban-children

What’s behind the global push to ban social media for kids

It started in Australia. Now dozens of countries are working on laws to keep younger kids away from social media. But do they really work?

The Christian Science Monitor

Freezenet 1h ago

Denial Takes Hold as Teens Circumvent Australian Age Verification

The failure of the Australian age verification laws has left advocates with the only tool left in the chest: denial.

https://www.freezenet.ca/denial-takes-hold-as-teens-circumvent-australian-age-verification/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #Canada #SocialMedia #VPN

The New Oil 4h ago

#Apple Requires Device-Level #AgeVerification in the #UK Now. Could the #US Be Next?

https://gizmodo.com/apple-requires-device-level-age-verification-in-the-uk-now-could-the-us-be-next-2000738481

#privacy #cybersecurity #IdentityVerification #politics #SocialMediaBan #SocialMedia #iPhone #iOS

Apple Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK Now. Could the US Be Next?

Users under 18 will have to deal with restrictions and anti-nudity text monitoring.

Gizmodo

Pete the Gopher Keeper 5h ago

UK: "Protect the children at ALL COSTS!"

ME ASKING FOR GUIDANCE: "Thank you for reaching out to the Professional Online Safety Helpline.

We greatly value your query and appreciate your patience during this time. We are currently operating at reduced capacity, which may result in longer response times than usual.

Please rest assured that your concern is important to us, and we will respond as soon as we can.

If you are contacting us with a serious safeguarding concern, please escalate this locally via your local authority"

It sucks! And what would my local authority know?!

#ageverification #LOL

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6h ago

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116307429187383416

I'm not worried about the surveillance laws as much as I'm worried about the "bUt wE cAn mAKe iT pRivAte" camp

#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec

The New Oil 7h ago

Inside the #Systemd #AgeVerification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

https://itsfoss.com/dylan-taylor-systemd-controversy/

#privacy #FOSS #doxxing #IdentityVerification #Linux

Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

A single pull request turned a quiet open source contributor into the unlikely target of one of the Linux community's most heated controversies. We interacted with Dylan Taylor to hear his side of the story.

It's FOSS