Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law Backlash

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Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law Backlash - Lemmy.ca

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Why wasn’t verification a thing 5 yrs ago or even 10 years ago? It sounds like some proprietary software is gonna infect open source ecosystem. It’s just sus how immensely imperative it has become
They’re legit trying to lock down general purpose computing devices. Even though they term this as ‘child protection’, this can be easily abused to lock everyone out of system modification. The heads of the corporations that sponsor this and legislators who took their money should be dragged out of their offices and paraded in a perp walk.