Age Verification

slonik · 2026-03-26 13:02:33

So Linux users are expected to go into hiding, rely on encrypted networks on the Dark Net, and accept being social outcasts, while developers who devote their private time to creating programs under the GNU license will be treated as criminals facing massive fines… Maybe that’s what the bureaucrats want?

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Elyon · 2026-03-26 13:39:23

So Linux users are expected to go into hiding, rely on encrypted networks on the Dark Net, and accept being social outcasts, while developers who devote their private time to creating programs under the GNU license will be treated as criminals facing massive fines… Maybe that’s what the bureaucrats want?

That's what corporations want. Bureaucrats are just sold out.

slonik · 2026-03-27 15:43:25

According to the CachyOS forum admin, a ‘radical’ is someone who opposes politicians interfering with the Linux source code

"CachyOS Censors "Radicals" Opposed to Age Verification"
-- The Lunduke Journal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJN6UWZPrzk

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zapper · 2026-03-28 01:44:55

@slonik good to know, I won't recommend CachyOS to anyone now.

This law will likely make kids more targetted not less.

Screw Zuckerberg for this and anyone who supports his bs.

blackhole · 2026-03-28 10:14:30

https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/age-verif … md/26316/6

Looks like one to avoid...

brocashelm · 2026-03-28 11:22:23

Convinced my friend who used CachyOS to switch to Artix after showing him the Bryan Lunduke video. All is good again.

pcalvert · 2026-03-28 12:01:29

I recall recently looking into CachyOS. As soon as I saw that it uses systemd, that was the end of that.

Duke Nukem · 2026-03-28 13:33:26

Screw Zuckerberg for this and anyone who supports his bs.

From my perspective in the UK, while there has been concern about kids getting addicted to Facebook etc, it has been more to do with stopping them seeing p0rn, and also about stopping anonymity on the internet which some politicians have been pushing for a long time. So far the UK has gone in a different direction, by requiring (under the Online Safety Act) p0rn websites to verify your age - that's right, you are supposed to show a shot of your passport, driving licence or give your credit card details to any shady p0rn site out there. Many non-p0rn websites are also asking for age proof because they are frightened of being prosecuted anyway in case a troll posts a NSFW comment and they take the blame for it. The UK government's answer to the security risks of on-line verification is "Just don't look at p0rn then!". A UK YouTuber called Cyber Waffle covers this :
https://youtu.be/eJYYO2EoxJg

However, if the practice of putting your birthday into your OS spreads, like it is now spreading in the USA, I have no doubt the UK and other governments will adopt that method too. As a bonus for them, it will be a backdoor method of adding digital ID without the resistance that was met by a straight-out attempt to introduce it recently.

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oldbook · 2026-03-29 07:50:13

Elyon · 2026-04-15 14:46:12

USA - A new federal bill proposes OS-level age verification, advancing beyond state laws to establish a potential nationwide requirement.

https://linuxiac.com/federal-bill-would … entire-us/

EU - age verification app ready as Europe moves to curb children's social media access

https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-age-ve … 026-04-15/

It seems that we are doomed.

zapper · 2026-04-16 03:35:01

@Elyon hopefully not... I refuse to eat shit.

Kiergan · 2026-04-16 18:48:51

For those interested:

This Is Not the End of Linux Freedom!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5RA4PzrEl0

https://systemdfree.com/#manifesto

It seems more and more people are starting to see that we were right all along.

golinux · 2026-04-16 20:49:58

I wish that was readable . . .

Elyon · Yesterday 08:35:00

This is just hilarious! It seems that the new released and highly praised EU Age Verification app got already hacked. And it took less than 2 minutes using only stock android app!

https://cybersecuritynews.com/eus-age-verification-app/

The arrogance of professional revolutionaries from the European Union announcing a groundbreaking application for the Union and the entire WORLD showed what clowns they are!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VRRriyDKKk

diziet_sma · Yesterday 15:35:29

My cynical side says that's the point. As with end to end encryption, everyone must be pwnable at the hands of the state.

yurimodin · Yesterday 22:14:57

My cynical side says that's the point. As with end to end encryption, everyone must be pwnable at the hands of the state.

This is just going to bring back webrings and BBS's, and that's a good thing.

diziet_sma · Yesterday 22:45:05

Well yes, but actually no. The US version at least, if bill HR 8250 and its Senatorial equivalent pass, would mandate age verification (i.e. ID verification, not just attestation) at the OS level, presumably shareable with every app and website through some API. This would effectively de-anonymize the Internet for US users.

Whether the bill will pass, not clear. It has bipartisan sponsorship, and like KOSA and numerous other such bills it will probably gather wide bipartisan support despite being very unpopular with the public. KOSA did fail to pass... But now it's been resurrected too, and it has support even from some officials who are normally against such surveillance and censorship measures. And there is no question that it would be signed into law if passed, and probably deemed legal by the Supreme Court as well.

The upshot is that for people in the US, it would allow them to be surveilled online much more easily regardless of their choice of websites or OS platforms. Circumvention wouldn't be impossible (people routinely bypass China's Great Firewall, of course it can be done) but the bar would be considerably higher for most users.

Edit: as far as the European version, pwned is pwned. If a mandatory app is easily hackable, then you can be spied on through it whether you are using Farcebook or Webring.

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