Mastodawn

The extent to which core linux projects are laying the groundwork for age verification is very concerning.

I understand why some believe they are compelled to do so, and why others feel that it may be better to implement the most minimal conforming implementation in the hopes of fending off something worse.

But the line must be drawn such that no threat can obligate an OS to collect/store personal information - without that freedom, we face an uphill fight to protect general purpose computing.

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Q. Edwards Mar 21

@sarahjamielewis I don't know if you're familiar with Steam. It requires a sort of age verification to view a video games page. You have to select a birth date to comply with regulations similar to what's happening here. Most folks just scroll down to 1945 or something insane allowing them to view the content and also screwing up any real data. I think this will be the compromise moving forward unless some sort of visual age verification or ID turns out to be a requirement.

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Fluffy Kitty Cat Mar 23

@the_q @sarahjamielewis they will. They'll scare us with the "dangers" of "insufficiently strict age verification"

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Fluffy Kitty Cat

@the_q @sarahjamielewis and by "dangers" they mean "my kid I'd trying to do conversion therapy on saw something trans-affirmative" and "my kid saw footage of the genocide I'm doing"