GrapheneOSBrazil's authoritarian age verification law became active this month. It won't be implemented by GrapheneOS. Complying would require integrating a mandatory process for each user where a third party service checks government identification and confirms a match using the camera.
It doesn't stop there. It would require keeping data for auditing and providing a token for connecting age verification checks by apps and websites to the data. The law is a privacy disaster and exposes minors to being exploited by leaking their age bracket to apps and websites.
GrapheneOS has no team members or operations in Brazil. São Paulo in Brazil is by far the biggest network hub within South America. Miami is also a major network hub for South America and is currently where our update server is for South America since it's dramatically cheaper.
Your Cunting Daughter 🧟♂️🤮@GrapheneOS interesting how a north american city such as Miami can serve as a network hub for south america. Geopolitics are an intricate yet interesting thing
Athos@murderkroger @GrapheneOS Miami has less latency to South America because of the subsea cables
@athos @murderkroger ISPs in South America can also bring traffic to Miami to pay cheap North American transit rates to send traffic to arbitrary destinations. The rates in North America and Europe are 1/10 of the cost of the rates in South America. They just need to get infrastructure to Miami and they have cheap transit to anywhere. It's not great that many of them do this because it causes high latency between South American locations if they aren't peered. It's not as bad as it used to be.