Linux Age Verification: FOSS in the Brave New World (youtube.com)
Since there's basically no UN anymore, maybe there's no universally expectable civil rights?
Brazil and California are the forerunners in this. NY, Colorado, Illinois.
How does this pass the Constitution? First Amendment prior restraint on access to information.
Brazil's constitution protects privacy of communications.
Cali tried to force an ID check on websites but the Supreme Court struck down such mandates.
In 2025 (Paxton), the US Supreme Court lowered the bar for infringing citizens' privacy and anonymity, from strict scrutiny to intermediate scrutiny.
Top comment.
'Actually protect a child \u274c
Mass Surveillance in public \u2705'
Commenter. 'The only "road ahead" is to fight tyranny, not to comply with it. If the laws are written by criminals for their convenience no one can have any moral obligation to follow them.'
Windows and Mac already have age gate/parental controls/ID registration. Ageless Linux \u2014 Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age (agelesslinux.org)
'The child has learned the following lesson: legal compliance prompts are obstacles to be bypassed. The dropdown menu that asks your age is not there to protect you. It is there because a legislature required it. The correct response is to lie. Everyone knows this. The legislature knows this. The platforms know this. The child now knows this.'
System76 already complied, reportedly. Fedora and Open Susa expected to also force ID indetification because of their association with Red Hat.