prkMar 22
Ross Grady
“If Ubuntu adds an age prompt to its installer, we will publish a script that removes it. If Fedora ships an org.freedesktop.AgeVerification1 daemon, we will publish a package that replaces it with /dev/null. If Debian stable adds age bracket signaling to AccountsService, we will maintain a fork that doesn't.

Today, the bash script is the whole distribution, because today there is nothing to remove. When there is something to remove, we will remove it. Ageless Linux is a promise that somewhere in the ecosystem, there will always be a distribution that treats its users as people of indeterminate age.“

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Show threadDeborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦Mar 21

@rossgrady @sashag sounds good! 🙏🤞

Q: as a non-techie linux user, how would I know about and implement such a thing?

Show threadnickaposMar 22
@rossgrady I have a feeling that Ubuntu will be extra careful about age verification.

Age verification for computers is a US thing. Canonical is headquartered in London, and i think this interpretation of age verification at the OS level is against GDPR anyway.
Even though most western countries are pushing for age verification for services, this application on the OS level is a US only thing and i do not believe it will fly in Europe.
Show threadRoss GradyMar 22
@nickapos You really think the UK is going to stop at the OSA -- which already mandates age verification at the website/application level -- and not buy into the propaganda that the age verification needs to be baked in to the OS in order to be effective?

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act-explainer/online-safety-act-explainer
Online Safety Act: explainer

GOV.UK
Show threadnickaposMar 22
@rossgrady I am pretty sure they will try to enforce it as widely as possible. But I believe this not going to go well with privacy laws.
We will have a lot of legal challenges both in the eu and the uk. Since these laws apply to the citizens of these countries and do not stop or start at the borders of the countries it is not very clear what the final outcome will be.