Fucking raise hell and cause chaos. Age checks are bullshit. All while our government is filled with corruption and pedophiles. Maybe stop listening to such an immoral entity.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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I’m so glad someone who can fight it is fighting it. They usually listen to companies more than people.
I’m saddened Democrats are pushing this before the midterms. They’re going to fumble this if they keep on this track.
California, Colorado and New York now.
Honestly is getting insane.
Given how many states are pushing legislation like this and how quickly they're doing it, there's effectively no way to push back against it...
I do hope that they stop this bullshit though.
Sometimes it freaks me out if I put my tinfoil hat on and start thinking that both sides are working together to move toward fascism.
Considering that a lot of the states doing this are blue, it would be understandable why one might think this.
They are both sides work for Israel
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I really don't understand what the value they see in putting age checks on operating systems. Like where is this coming from? Who whispered in their ear that OS age checks are something that need to be done?
From what I can tell, the 'age' part is misdirection. They want to restrict computer use to the "good" people, to make it "safer".
Using age restrictions first allows legislation to be passed "for the children" using the idea of potential harm to theoretical children. However, in practice, legislators expect the implementation of the age check to be capable of checking anything else they want to about your identity, as a prerequisite for access. Probably using a combination of face scans and ID scans.
I don't even understand what good this is. what does this do for them? The government has a database of identities and now it's going to have a database of identities with computers? for what? Steven uses Windows, Susie uses Linux.
if you're using internet at home or on a cell phone, they've already got your online identity or whatever. what is it that I'm missing
You arent going deep enough. Its about building a web of all of your online identities to crush dissent and influence public opinion. Susie frequents anarchist.nexus under the user the_cloaked and there she seems to interact with another user, lilanarkiddy, a lot. Steven's windows computer also reported that he frequents the site, under the user lilarnarkiddy. And you see where that will lead to.
It isn't even just the government, big tech wants this too. They want to be able to track everything you do with your computer, and that's more easily achieved if OS level identification is required. Big tech wants it for data harvesting and ad targeting, the government wants it for surveillance and narrative control. The end goal is government verified digital ID that will be required to use any operating system. There will be no anonymity anymore. This creates a panopticon effect in which people police themselves because they know they are always being watched. Furthermore, the information you receive in your social media feeds and web searches can be silently curated based on what is known about your political attitudes. It can all be managed by AI.
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PopOS best distro (?)
Thats like asking what hammer is best. You can use most if not all to drive nails, but not all are best suited for the task.
Pop_OS lets Ubuntu drive fast and break things while focusing hardware/driver support, makes it great for video games. The only program Ive ever had issues with is Davinci Resolve, but those issues with linux compatibility are of their own creation, not the OSs.
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Sure doesn't seem like it, from my personal experience, as well as Linus of Linus Tech Tips' experiences. Doesn't mean we can't root for the company when they throw their weight behind a good cause.
LTT mentioned ACHTUNG ACHTUNG🚨
Yeah, tbf Linus hasn't had a great, or even ok experience with any Linux distro...
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no but you can use it anyway if you want
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The whole law is dumb. They need to create a standard universal method first. So when does this protection get applied? Can't somebody just boot a thumb drive?
All the other problems with it aside literally this... All operating system providers, including Linux somehow, are supposed to implement a system with a background API that can be pinged by websites through a method that hasn't even been made yet.. concept of a thing to your software that communicates with this other concept of a thing or else we fined into the ground effective in less than one year... Good luck.
Pssst Microsoft.. pssst Apple... Don't worry we'll send you exactly what to put in your code. Just keep it to yourselves tho
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Can't somebody just boot a thumb drive?
This has gotten me especially curious about Tails.
when major websites start doing this weird browser or os based signature verification, tails isn't going to work very well on them anymore. using the internet without your signature will probably be about as fun as it is to browse with tor right now
generate a new signature with some fake history for every site you visit
That's what I was afraid of, and that sucks because using Tails could mean avoiding prison or worse for journalists doing certain work.
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Lmao does the register really cite Reddit as a source? it was a cesspool off missinformation on the CA bill, I doubt it's any better on the CO one.
Why not link to the actual bill like it does for other states?
It's also wildly disingenuous to lump the bills that require verification and those that just require an OS store an unverified age and return it, but that's what I'd expect from reddit.
There's still valid concern about this being a foot in the door tactic. Once an OS complies with this request what will the next one be? Why should this even be allowed?
Either way though, the reddit citation is a bit unnerving.
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I don't want either. And it's a slippery slope to the next stage, and the next. Eventually we will have no control over what we own and zero privacy.
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