Why does an operating system for a piece of computer equipment need the age of the person using it? We already use biometrics like fingerprints, faces, etc for authentication.
What’s significant about age, other than using it as an alternative data point for something harder to assess?
- https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115751137773638580
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“OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability?
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OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability? #accessibility #disability #linux #FreeSoftware #fascism #AgeVerification #infantilism
@archivescribe Linux is an open source operating system.
1. Why does an operating system need age verification?
2. For server installs, whose age will be entered - the server admin or the owning corporation?
3. Isn’t age restriction really about access to specific content/materials, not a functioning computer?
@dahukanna Unfortunately many of those projects are corporate-owned & have an interest that is in many ways opposed to the values of open source. I can see a Canonical saying it’s acceptable, if it means keeping their enterprise/cloud clientele/services.
As for the endgame on the part of the state governments, I think it’s control. As for the motivations for that control (economic, personal, legal), I’m not 100% certain yet. I just have to hope it fails.
Dawn Ahukanna
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