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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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Someone would have had to do this eventually anyways. Be angry at the geriatric fascists, not developers. If it comes to it that the project cannot survive without these changes, then it would be made so that these changes are made.
You gotta think and read more about the actual issue here. The PR was pointless. The idea that Linux could ever comply is absurd. It's open source. It's international. Nobody cares about Colorado law.
We're all going to die one day anyway, might as well jump off a cliff now.