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Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.

New York about to vote on a law that would "require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 43 points 12 hours ago (9 children)

Linux is just a kernel.

Redhat with fedora and steam with the arch based steam os will be the ones that have to implement it.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 37 points 12 hours ago (8 children)

Adding that nonsense to enterprise Linux distros will be hilarious to watch.

And Steam can just sell blank hardware and let you install some distro you find on the Internet. Streetlight did that with one of their albums.

And what happens when someone forks fedora and removes it for their own machine. Who’s the manufacturer then?

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

You're probably writing that on a device that has a secure boot chain. So far it was there without strict enforcement, but once the manufacturers decide you only get your shit signed if you implement $ARBITRARY_ORWELLIAN_GOV_RULE, you're pretty much fucked.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

You mean I can voluntarily not participate in society?

BRB installing Linux everywhere.

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