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Artix isn't going to comply with age-gating.
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this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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Yet. it's a foot-on-the-door to demand more stuff, and some distros have already shown they are going to merrily open up their arses and ours.
This is something being created in response to laws being passed by politicians, it's not a secret plot by systemd and distro maintainers to... whatever it is that you're implying.
This is about as scary as the realName, emailAddress or location fields. They're completely optional and not validated in any way. You can call yourself Linus Torvalds set your e-mail address to gaben@valve.com and your location to Mars... nothing about the system is going to check or care if you're lying. Similarly, now you can set your birthdate to April 20th 69BC if you'd like. It doesn't mean anything.
e: I lied, it has to be ISO 8601 compliant so anybody born before 1900 is ineligible for Linux, smh
Literally nobody: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people
AFAICT even the oldest unverified person was born in 1900 https://en.iz.ru/en/node/2061564?main_click
Someone in the future may be born before 1900, we can't know for sure.
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if the slippery slopers claim that this is just the first step, eventually they'll make it ban anyone born before 1970, then 2036
To be fair, when it comes to both physical and digital fascism, every time the slippery slopers have been told they are sloping and exaggerating, they are actually proven right.
And when people are exaggerating and lying about what laws are actually being passed, they always yell slippery slope, and get to sneak off silently when actually proven wrong. L
I've been slippery sloped already in one of these conversation threads.
Oh they passed a law that doesn't require age verification?
But what if they passed it as a pretext to pass a different law later to kill your nan.
It's disappointing to see the lack of good conversation around this isn't due to tool limitations or reddit being terribly moderated, but rather there are a lot of people who genuinely just want to invent stuff to get mad about and if you point out that isn't what's happening they'll just yell slippery nipples the sky is falling!!! Over and over.
Whatever happened to the EU meme law that was widely misinterpreted on reddit as the end of the world, I guess nothing.
Hot takes and creative fiction is more entertaining than boring reality and that behavior is enforced by social media systems (like likes). It isn't fun to read 'they passed a law that's largely symbolic' as 'The end of the Internet is upon us'.
Outrage and self-righteousness feel good and appearing cynical is a cheap way to look intelligent.
Alternatively, something like half of social media traffic was shown to be bot-sourced and a goal of adversarial influence campaigns is often to simply stir up conflict so I keep my sanity by believing that a good portion of them are not actual human people, just evil LLMs trying to piss everyone off (and a lot of the rest are simply people who've been fooled by the false consensus into aping those same bot tactics and/or literal children)
Some topics, like discussions around AI, are so heavily toxic that I find it hard to believe that it isn't being signal boosted in some way.