@iaruffell

Because it's not a single state, not even a single country. I think this video about systemd is elucidating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5AcreFk40U

Watch until the end, because the last message is important.

#systemd #linux #ageverification

@ammdias

I thought the Colorado situation was ongoing. But that doesn't invalidate my point that some statutes are given rapid attention and others, which are designed to help minorities are not.

Oh, and at the risk of being snarky, I note with amusement that a response to a point about accessibility is a youtube video. Honey, it is wasted on me.

@iaruffell @ammdias

These age-verification laws are getting promoted by Meta, in their ongoing efforts to evade culpability for content moderation & to eliminate privacy as a civil right.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

https://fortune.com/2026/03/02/social-media-companies-age-verification-addiction-privacy-concerns/

https://thedeepdive.ca/who-pushes-age-verification-bills/

Meta never abided by child protection laws before. Why now?
https://archive.is/ZyajL

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/18/reddit-user-uncovers-meta-2b-lobbying-age-verification-xcxwbn/

They want to be able to sell ads adjacent to CSAM content for the Epstein Class & not face the type of repercussions ...

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@Npars01 @ammdias

Certainly. But that doesn't address my question about the readiness of FLOSS to comply in one case and not the other.

Privacy is enshrined in Article 8 of ECHR, which is a bit harder to undo, although the right in the UK are now intent on leaving (for other reasons).

@iaruffell @ammdias

My guess?

Linux developers may have patrons that they don't want to irritate.

My observation is that swift unemployment in a day job follows when a FOSS developer fails to fall in line.

@ tante@ tldr.nettime.org is just one example I can cite.

Age verification is getting unprecedented levels of support from funded mass malign influence campaigns.

@Npars01 @iaruffell @ammdias This is why tech companies hiring FOSS maintainers or key developers is fundamentally malicious and something we should not accept.

If they want to fund the people working on the commons they depend on, they need to do it in ways that do not give them, or even give the appearance that they have, editorial control over anything.

As one of them myself, I can say this is not terribly hard but it requires standing up for yourself and your project. Communicating that control over it is not for sale and that terms of engagements need to acknowledge that.