other_catSystemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux
The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.
SupercrunchyOf all terrible proposals coming up in this period, I’m still more-or-less ok with this system because the administrator is still in full control to set whatever date they want, and the field is entirely optional.
They call it “age verification” in the aricle, but there’s no 3rd party “verification” whatsoever. It’s just a field for the user birth date saved in the user metadata. This is IMHO acceptable because it doesn’t force anybody to provide IDs or personal information to some random shady company.
I think calling it “age verification” is a bit confusing and will make people unhappy by default, but might be a smart move to make it compliant with the new laws coming out in this period (the user age was “verified” by the system administrator, after all).
whelkFor me at least, it’s less about the age field itself and more about the swift act of compliance with an absurd and overbearing demand
What is the alternative here?
forestbeastsNot implementing it and going “well okay don’t use it in California then”, for one thing!
I’m not an expert in law. But wouldn’t the maintainers be fined if an underage used it in California? Given that they can obtain it without any sort of location spoofing
da_cow (she/her)Not an expert in law either, but I Am pretty sure, that they would not be fined.