In this video I discuss how states are passing laws that would require users to submit their age in order to use an operating system, and how this will affect the free software community.

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California's AB 1043 and Colorado's SB26-051 would require operating system providers to implement age-bracket detection during setup, exposing user age data via a real-time API to installed apps. The laws apply retroactively to existing OS installations and carry fines up to $7,500 per affected child. While major OS vendors like Microsoft, Apple, and Google could absorb compliance costs, the Linux ecosystem faces unique challenges — especially hobbyist distros like Arch and Gentoo. Ubuntu has already raised questions about ambiguous scope (servers, VMs, adult users). The author argues this is a slippery slope toward full ID verification at the OS level, threatening online anonymity and the privacy advantages that drew users to Linux in the first place.

Online Age Checks Are Going Too Far

Those putting up these laws should be punished.

It’s only a matter of time before there’s so giant exposure of one of the third party age verification sites (if there hasn’t been already) the whole thing is madness. All these checks seem to do is stop the right people being able to access services, and the people they’re trying to stop just go round them. Either the law makers are guilty of ignorance or they’re doing it for some other reason

In Brazil, they are shutting down mirror servers and blocking download links because Brazilian politicians approved an age verification law, making the existence of Linux unviable here. Disgusting.

Communist laws by Communist lawmakers. Disobey. F em