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Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn (www.politico.eu)
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Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

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[–] staircase@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are there not just going to be dozens of linux forks without age verification?

Or people just move to the distros that don't do this?

(Mac and Windows may be a lost cause?)