nixCraft 🐧Ubuntu Linux is planning to comply with Age Verification law.
On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-March/043510.html
🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 AmbiyelpHow about we make arch install scripts more user friendly, can't regulate the OS if its distributed in parts right?
Derpi 
@ambiguous_yelp @nixCraft Yeah, that as something I was thinking about. How are they gonna govern something like Arch or Gentoo? Or even LFS? But then again they are targeting distros with a certain amount of users. How much users I don't know exactly. This could be a decent grey area.
No matter how authoritarian the laws get there will always be a line to toe: and in toeing that line you will elicit 1 of 2 responses from the state:
1. Overpolice and lose public legitimacy
2. Underpolice and the law itself is undermined
AvocaWhat, and destroy Arch's fanboy status?
nieuemma@ambiguous_yelp @nixCraft I've used the "archinstall" tool ever since I first learned it existed. Just a menu to go through and select what I want.
Kawazoe@ambiguous_yelp @nixCraft "We are not an operating system provider. We only provide the tool for a user to generate one on demand using their own specifications. The tool is fundamentally incapable of enforcing any specification on its own." Is a pretty based answer to laws like this one.