So, OS-level age-gating is going federal, which will effectively kill your rights to device ownership and what’s left of free speech and expression.
Enjoy your free speech while you still have it because this is a clear attempt to erase that right.
SOPA never died, it just went into hiding until time to reemerge, and now’s that time, this is basically SOPA in a save the kids trenchcoat.
Canadian here. If I can’t find a Linux distro that will not comply with this bullshit law, I’ll use my GrapheneOS phone and nothing else. Wouldn’t be the first time in my life I used a phone for everything.
Artix straight-up refused, and I presume antiX’s general stance is against age-gating as they proudly state their anti-fascist stance in their tagline, and as far as I’m aware Devuan is against age-gating as well. I also can assume Parabola and Hyperbola are against this as well.
And then of course Ageless is protestware.
Adenix also refused.
Thanks for the list of distros.
Honestly I forsee ageless going tits up and becoming abandoned ware. Things made for such a narrow and hot blood purpose never last long. It’s a neat meme. But little more.
At least a few real distros are actually pushing back.
Wouldn’t GrapheneOS have the Linux kernel and therefor also the same age restrictions? Genuine question here.
The bill targets “operating system providers” and it’s called GrapheneOS. So yes, they would be subject to this law if they are based in USA.
They’re based in Canada, and given their privacy-focused approach I can’t imagine they’d implement such a feature.
They’ve already stated quite clearly that they will not implement age verification.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws
You know till Canada does it and then they won’t have a choice.
I doubt if our courts will allow such a law.
This would have to live at the distro level I believe, not at the kernel level
It’s fucking Linux.
If you really wanted to, you could make a fork of your favorite distro and remove the age-gating shit yourself.
would be great to make a distro with it that had a very easy way to remove it. Like remove X folder and it won’t do it and will detroy any record of one put in.
Do you wipe your ass with that phone?
Sometimes. Why?
You wipe your ass with their phone?