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If you're against data centers you should be in favour of age verification. Just imagine how many data centers will have to close once Linux becomes illegal.
On the other hand, it's unlikely that police will actually go after individuals using Linux.
...I'm going to go ahead and be against both bad ideas, myself.
Big tech are the ones behind the age verification push. Linux wouldn’t become illegal, only the distros available to end users would be.
@EncryptKeeper @ranzispa its funny, I used to think that this kind of legislation where a tremendos effort to apply on big corps, until I understund that it also makes them the only ones that can apply them
I guess here on the fediverse it is essential to add the
/sto not be taken seriously.No, I'm not. I'm in favor of parents parenting kids themselves (their fav excuse for bringing I.D. checks in)
There is no way it applies to headless applications
The way the laws are being written, it applies to literally any computing device.
They just say “operating system” there’s no carve out for servers or iot or anything. Technically you will have to provide a date of birth to use a smart fridge now. Hell, there’s at least one toaster I know of that has a full android install on it, that will need age verification too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HqGSioLCOQ