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I already have the distros downloaded that are against this.

If it comes for my favorite distro that I use everyday I will immediately uninstall it and instance one of the ones that isn’t bending over to let Uncle Sam and others take them from behind.

All they had to do was say they wouldn’t support people from the places that those laws were or would be enacted in. That’s it. That’s all they fucking had to do.

Already a thing. We can choose between Ubuntu, who restrict your freedom and privacy in the Snap store, and have experimented with weird things like forward your desktop search to the internet or integrate Amazon into your desktop. Or you can pick a different distro. Some have telemetry, some ask you for your permission.

When privacy is outlawed, what do you think?

Praying for us ‘I use Arch BTW’ people to have our day in the sun. Don’t fail us!

I honestly don’t know because when it comes to Linux, it’s super complicated. Because it is essentially a collection of packages developed by various organizations and contributors from all over the world.

I suspect you won’t even be able to choose “illegal” distros either because the distro is only half of the equation. The app stores are required to require an age signal as well, and if you don’t provide one they probably won’t let you download. Flathub is run by GNOME out of CA, so they’ll most certainly comply.

I suspect this will result in new mirrored repositories located outside the US but who knows really?

I’m curious to see how it’ll develop.

I don’t get why gnu/linux devs are even involved in this. They aren’t serving the content, how are the liable?

I think the community needs to ddos every CA website into oblivion.

That would kill the entire SSL infrastructure?

Because Facebook paid a lot of money to the courts to shift the blame from the social media companies (including themselves) to the operating system

What is stopping everyone from having the same birthday? I propose 1969-01-01

Your digital ID which needs to be linked with your user account. “Age verification” is the setup for this.

Which distros are against it?

OP’s “Arch Linux” link points to the install script, not the operating system Arch Linux.

So far I have Ageless and regular Debian but the Debian devs haven’t taken a hard stance either way yet, that’s still better than taking a stance for it. At least there is some resistance. Adenix as well.

And while not Linux I’m about to install freeBSD on a spare laptop as well and if they take a stance for it I’ll use MidnightBSD or GhostBSD.

Such bullshit. It’s fucking everywhere now too. The fact that this even touched the linux world in mind-boggling to me.

I was very confused about this too. But now I realize that’s not what “FOSS” means to everyone. There are developers that work with FOSS in the same way they could (or do) work for a corporation – note the many comments like “users don’t have any rights to make demands of developers”, “developers don’t owe anything to the users or to the ‘community’”, and similar comments. Luckily there are also developers for which “FOSS” does mean what it means to you and me.

Maybe there are other FOSS users that are under the same misunderstanding as I was. It should be made clear that “FOSS”, per se, really means nothing else than “not requiring payments” and “with source open to the public”. Any extra meanings depend on whom you’re speaking to.

I do worry.

Technically right now the age thing in systemd is just a stored field that you can set to anything easily. In its current form pretty benign and not a privacy issue.

But it almost always gets worse and more and more controls get added, until we’re at face verification services and other privacy invasive stuff.