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On January 1st, governments will start forcing users to verify their age at the operating system level on all internet-enabled devices. But one brave Linux script is daring to fight back against the mighty surveillance state…

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A new California law called the Digital Age Assurance Act (AB1043), passed in October 2025, requires all general-purpose operating systems including Linux to collect user age data and expose an API for age verification by January 2027. A project called Ageless Linux responds by providing a script for Debian-based distros that installs a non-functional age verification API, effectively declaring non-compliance with the law. The post frames the law as a Trojan horse for mass surveillance, benefiting big tech companies like Meta (which lobbied for it) and Apple/Microsoft, while harming small developers and eroding internet anonymity.

This new Linux distro is breaking the law, by design…

F*ck California and that communist law.

So California doesn’t require age verification for online pornography in their state, citing concerns of privacy, but they were able to pass a law to make OSs collect age information and require an API for it. what’s the psyop here, fellas?

Thanks to these guys, and thank you, systemd, for finally making me hate it enough to switch distros to something simpler that treats users with more respect.