SneezyWhy does mastodon-social not have age verification?
Isn't that the UK law?
Have I misunderstood it?
Stewart TolhurstRE: https://technology.foxbasealpha.net/2026/04/04/letter-to-mp/
This got far too long for Mastodon, so I stuck it on my WordPress blog which is Federated with the ActivityPub plugin.
If you take the time to read it, and you’re in the UK yourself, the public consultation on the social media ban for under sixteen year olds is live and I’d encourage people to respond. UK based Mastodon mods will need to think about the implications of these proposals…
#OnlineSafety #AgeVerification #DigitalPrivacy #SocialMediaBan
Bogdan BuduroiuGuess the operating system that will NOT have age verification
codebuzz 🐧And.. after we get this law rejected, we need to see everybody involved in this law being prosecuted and questioned.
Theses people should work FOR the people, not against. We all pay for them! If they work against us, we are allowed to take them down, and we should! That's where the bill of rights is for.
This is your warning Newsom, California and any other institute chosing control over people. There will be a jailcell-door waiting to open for you.
Just one more.. This is not a trivial thing and it's not new as Benjamin Franklin allready put to words.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
At this point, this moment in time, we decide the future.
For ourselves, but even bigger.. also our children, grandchildren.
Choose wisely!
#ageverification #privacy #control #governement #bigtech #fightforprivacy
Continued..
These laws(?) go straight against the 1st amendment.
At the operating level its dangerous and unneeded. Not hard to see what could happen next. (we know lawmakers like keep making more new rules):
Control access:
- Mobile phone
- App(s)
- Shopping (what you can and cant buy)
- Cars (check if you can drive)
- Online services
- And ofcourse next.. digital money
- Etc.
You either fight the problem, or are part of the problem.
This is it. Will the real distributions please stand up..
Any distro, I mean ANY, that includes age-verification will be obsolete to me.
If you aren't fighting the problem, you are part of it.
Why?..
It would ALWAYS need to check. So, checks will always need to happen, ALWAYS. So.. Guilty, until proven not Guilty.
That's not how it works!
#privacy #noageverification #ageverification #fightageverification #government #anti-privacy #control
More Linux Distros Respond to Age Verification..
The open internet was an exception, a happy blip in human history where collaboration and communication flourished, but, as with free trade and protection of sea lanes, it was predicated on American hegemony.
China's always closed itself off from the wider Internet, most content from China is soft-blocked to the outside. Countries facing internal turmoil turn to internet shutdowns as one of their first response.
In some cases, this is a good thing -- China managed to create their home-grown tech platforms that serve their citizens' needs, for example.
The reason bodies like the EU are so hellbent on age verification and Chat Control is that they believe the next decades will mean ruling from positions of deep unpopularity, looking at handling demographic collapse, increase in military spending, further austerity and climate migration all at once. Adding dissent into the mix is, in their eyes, not acceptable.
"Pax Americana" is over, the Peace Dividend is over, and now the open internet, is also over.
Mr Don a mediocre man@kdkorte Like Digital ID, age verification will not work. It will fail at a basic level. My 13 year old grandson will simply ask grandma, or some other soft adult to login in for them. Or more deceitful persons will log and note other login details or use their ubi key etc.
Age verification does not work. It is a waste of time. Just not worth the effort and expense.
And, heaven alone only knows what the unintended consequences are.
René Darioit was a mistake to let everyone get access to the Internet.
[Late Night Linux] Episode 378
https://podcastaddict.com/late-night-linux/episode/219965011 via @podcastaddict
#linux #politics #foss #ageverification #cyberpunk #meta #facebook #control #population #globalidentity #surveillance #Capitalism
Late Night Linux - Late Night Linux – Episode 378
Listen to Late Night Linux - Late Night Linux – Episode 378 by The Late Night Linux Family on Podcast Addict. Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more. News Just over a month until OggCamp! Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June fro