Robert Kingett1d ago
I just boosted a question, but I have a slightly reworded question. Why is Linux and FOSS tripping over themselves to comply with Fascism surveillance capitalism instead of the long established international and national accessibility laws and accessibility guidelines and disability inclusion guidelines? Surely, one thing is better than the other, no? And it ain't Fascism surveillance capitalism that's the better option. #Linux #FOSS
Show threadAriane1d ago

@WeirdWriter I don't know. I hear systemd has a patch. Which wouldn't surprise me, because redhat (a company) probably wants to keep selling their OS to big tech companies in California.

But I've also seen a debian post on this, that tries to bring this to its logical conclusion.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2026/03/msg00018.html
Which can be used as a basis for arguing this is a bad law.

On the need for a censorship API for legal compliance reasons in some countries and U.S. states

Show threadKrahabors
@nahratzah What a *server* OS has to do with age verification?
Does it need to verify only it's installer, or all of it's users then?@WeirdWriter
Mar 23 at 1:22pmWeb
Show threadAriane1d ago

@krahabors @WeirdWriter No idea.

But systemd is used by many linuxen.
And even server OSes have users, and can be used on your laptop (or a VM image).

Depending on how the law is worded, these may or may not be in scope.

But for this question, I recommend you speak to a (qualified) sollicitor, which I am not. <3

Show threadKrahabors1d ago
@nahratzah I know what is systemd, but in case of RH, this urgency is really strange.
@WeirdWriter