It’s called “parenting.” Yes, it’s harder these days with the internet and literally everything “right there.” But it’s still your job as a parent.

ANYTIME ANYONE imposes restrictions “for the children” - there’s something nefarious going on. If it’s a politician-they are looking to build a database for $. If it’s your priest-he’s banging the alter boy after ccd, or hates himself so much for being gay he’s lashing out at the lgbtq community. If it’s a company-they’ve either been threatened into doing it or more likely are on the take with a fat payday. If it’s a developer adding it into Linux, they should expect fierce skepticism and backlash from the community.

It’s NEVER about the children. It’s always an alternative motive. If they actually cared about kids, they’d make sure they were fed at school, they’d invest in their education, or they’d invest into social programs to help out those less fortunate.

Tbh, this is just a massive stack of misguidedness.

First, look at what the original law does:

• OS needs to know the age.
• OS itself doesn’t do anything with the age
• OS needs to provide the age to apps and services asking for it
• Apps and services need to block content based on the age provided with the OS
• If the OS doesn’t provide an age, apps and services have to block as if the user was a toddler

Removing the requirement for the OS to provide an age doesn’t change anything at all, because someone running an OS that doesn’t provide an age will just be blocked everywhere. That’s not a solution, that’s a joke to appease idiots who don’t know what the law does.

This is just as misguided as the backlash against systemd who added an age field to the user account to allow people to be still able to access age-restricted content.

The actually relevant part that people should be combatting is the requirement for apps and services to do age verification using the OS-provided age. The OS age field doesn’t matter.

See you in a year or 2.

Play as old as times:

1. Company announces garbage change
2. People freak out
3. Company says ok we will only do half of the garbage
4. People calm down and forget
5. Company later does the rest of the garbage
6. Nobody cares because half of it is already there

The most pedophilic government in history desperately needs to know if your children are on the computer

… For reasons

Install a router/device based content filter if you need to block children from accessing porn.

So they’re basically admitting that they don’t need this for any computer since if you don’t need it for open source why would you need it for closed source? You think kids don’t know how to download and install linux? If I could do it with floppies and a book in the 90s then kids today can do it with a USB image and LLM assistance.

But in reality they’ll probably just wait for a few years and try and push it through again like how they do with most shitty legislation.

We neee more backlash on things.

This is like winning a small fight and continuing to march on to Moscow on the winter.

They’ll keep whittling rights down until everything you do is logged with your ID and is whitelisted for your consumption (and I mean whitelisted by rich white list of folks who have the power).

Anything LGBTQ will be blocked as controversial. And teaching they don’t like will be hidden. Was slavery bad? “Well, that’s controversial. The Europeans did nothing but civilize those savages don’t you know! And our wealth justifies the whole thing!”