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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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Yes it's technically trivial. I have read the patch. That's beside the point, which is social and political.
I get to decide and report what does and does not hurt me thankyouverymuch. And I do think this is a step that erodes my right to privacy, taken with shockingly little discussion. (Which got it reverted)
There's a lot of degrees of freedom between "just comply bro" and "good luck enforcing that". For example https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification