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System76 on Age Verification Laws (blog.system76.com)
submitted 4 days ago by negativenull@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago

This is going to end up in the Supreme Court as a First Amendment challenge because if code is speech, then age verification is code and therefore compelled speech by the government.

Anybody who complies with this is a fucking sheep. We need people who will stand up and strip age verification code out of any Linux operating system that dares to implement it. For example, if Ubuntu implements it, we need somebody to stand up, strip the verification code out of it, and then release it as Ubuntu free or whatever.