Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Many more US states are planning or already have operating system age verification laws https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/many-more-us-states-are-planning-or-already-have-operating-system-age-verification-laws/
niarbeht@gamingonlinux that New York one sounds like garbage. I’ll need to look at the text of it sometime.
Page Asgardius@gamingonlinux
With this, most linux users will avoid distros made at USA. At Kimberly GNU/Linux homepage i left clear that i won't follow these absurd laws. As project website is not hosted at USA, i no have reaons to comply
With this, most linux users will avoid distros made at USA. At Kimberly GNU/Linux homepage i left clear that i won't follow these absurd laws. As project website is not hosted at USA, i no have reaons to comply
soapone@asgardius @gamingonlinux
I'm not sure how they will be enforced though.
Do they only go after package maintainers? Developers for random parts of the distro? whoever hosts the servers for the package database?
If I recall, the FTC said it will be blocking enforcement of such rules, at least for now. That won't help brazil though who passed similar laws and goes into effect in a week or two.
canagan@gamingonlinux These "laws" are not about child protection and all about data brokerage and building profiles of the real people using technology that bypasses the pseudonyms and screen names so that individuals can be targeted and silenced by any big corpo or gov't. Any court/judge/lawyer worth their salt wouldn't uphold this sort of "law". Sadly politicians are running around unchecked.
#Dystopia #1984
FOSS as a whole should Not comply regardless of home country
#Dystopia #1984
FOSS as a whole should Not comply regardless of home country
狐ヴィクシー@gamingonlinux Rufus and/or Ventoy will probably add some option to remove age checks on Windows and Linux distributions which include this.
Xoa Gray@gamingonlinux The worst part of this is that it’s just a front for data collection and attaching everything we do on our computers to our IDs. They aren’t saying that part out loud, but it’s obviously what they want. That’s going to be abused to hell and back.
Really Lazy Bear 
@gamingonlinux I wish all the best for all Americans who didnt ask for this, and especially System76. Sorry y'all have to deal with that stupid age verification bullcrap.