This week Age Verification came into effect in Brazil. It seems will be very agressive. They will demand OS age verification even on Linux. All traditional media outlets are applauding the enactment of this law, arguin that now our childreen are protected from these evil “Big Tecs” . They seem to be blind to the bad side of this. What do you guys think and how is your country about these mad laws ?
These are retarded, stupid, and dangerous laws that the US, UK, Brazil and Co are passing. I am actually baffled by the FOSS community, especially the Linux community that despite huge backlash maintainers still seem to be complying. The changes on Linux to implement age verification will still be bypassable, you can lie about your age, there is no verification. So, OS level age verification sucks, but despite this a Ubuntu or a Debian will remain usable and private for now. The deeper problem that we see unfolding before our eyes here is that most big Linux distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora are based (or most of their devs and resources are based) in the US and thus are not immune to US pressure and censorship. I am also worried about what happens online where people are voicing their opposition to age crap on Reddit and other forums like Arch Linux’s forum and they get censored and even banned!!! Very very disappointing and very scary stuff, who the hell is censoring these guys??? Again, very disappointing from a supposedly decentralized operating system, I just hope nothing else will follow.
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