Why do some people just have the worst fucking ideas...and why is "some" starting to feel like "most"
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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age verification made easy:
user has internet access -> contracts can only be made by adults -> thus age is verified...
also... whoever provides minors internet access goes to jail
the whole point of age verification is control of adults. Kids are always just excuse, people who spout "think of the children!!" style rethoric always couldnt care less about kids. Those who do dont yell about it and actually do stuff to help kids, so its easy to tell them apart.
I hope OpenSuse doesn't follow, or I will have to switch to a fully community distro that have already said the f word to age verification
As if their consoderation of adopting AI into their dev stack wasn't enough.
Anyone have any recommendations for distros like Fedora that don't have systemd and won't consider using AI, but do support KDE?
For solutions that back on actually "verifying" the age by requiring credit card or government ID, those suck.
As described, this is an administrator self describing the age, which doesn't mean much to anyone except kids of people who apply parental controls to systems their kids have access to.
Accounts already require your "full name" but we don't consider that "full name verification".
This proposal seems to be in the spirit of least intrusive means to let parents opt into this stuff if they want, with no ties to identity compromising third party/state "verification".
Question is whether this sort of solution that at least gives parents some chance will satisfy the lawmakers long term. For the wave of laws now, it seems to suffice to self attest age.
Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.
They don't require anything. You can leave that empty or just put John Doe. All that is required for an account on a Linux system is a username and a password.
Ok well I suggest Fedora Project leader get fucked. Plenty of other good distros bub.
How bout 
Glad I ditched Fedora a while ago.
Whoever the fuck supports age verification should be hung!!! Fuck that shit!!
Fuck age verification, but the fact that this comment gets even a single upvote seriously worries me.
It's the welcoming of surveillance with open arms! IF "protecting the children" is what we're after, TRULY honestly after, then social media would be banned for anyone under the age of 18!
The fact that Zuck KNOWS this (Meta and its current format) is the problem he pushes all blame to everyone and everything else. And like IDIOTS the government listens-mostly because they're all bought and paid for anyway. FB did studies back in 2014 (that's right over 12 years ago) or earlier to prove it wasnt addictive, and found it to be worse than they thought so they buried it!
My guess is, before the hearing, Zuck and crew agreed this is the way to get gov off his back and also get gov MORE data and surveillance. It's a win-win. Every obedient citizen who doesn't know/understand technology says "OK I guess" and everyone else with half a spine and understanding... Takes a stand!!
Facebook first released for 18+ users as it was for college and you needed your school's .edu address to open an account. To grow the userbase, it was opened up to more and more users which then lead to more and more deceptive practices to always get that YoY growth.
Meanwhile, it acts as an escape from reality as people hate their own lives, and "influencers" are the fakest ones feeding consumerism to others, because "if you do this one thing you can be good too" shit.
Personally, if you directly do anything to mislead/misguide others for your own selfish gain, you should feel awful about holding back those around you, instead of working together to fight the system! Unfortunately, right now, too many people feel inadequacies, so we're getting to the point where we say "fuck it" and so we do anything to get ahead...
The TL;DR is: It's no longer about connecting people, it's about money, data, and control! Pretty much ALL social media is a cancer designed to keep users engaged to distract them from the shitty world around them as it falls apart.
In the wise words of Sam Flynn, "We need to work together, it's the only way!" 😁
Depends on how its verified
Any form of age verification is a violation of user privacy.
if im the root user then no user on my system has privacy
It's not about your system. It's about every system connecting to the Internet. It's not local age verification, it's widespread monitoring by the government.
They said any form of age verification. I can verify the age of users on my system
Read the room.
...which is precisely why I'm not on your system. ;)
Ok cool. Completely pointless comment