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I had a thought, this is done to reduce opposition to age verification. Most people who really care about privacy will use Linux and open source. So now a lot of those will not care about the age verification being thrust on Microsoft/Apple users because it doesn’t affect them.
Also because there’s no logical, effective way to enforce this on FOSS tech
Guess GNU/Linux is about to get popular with kids.
Thanks to smart phones, this generation of kids is roughly as tech literate as boomers.
I wouldn’t get your hopes up.
My 14yo is on Linux and has been troubleshooting the VR setup. Not going to say she knows Linux well or better than me, but motivation is the key.
Good. Maybe then future generations won’t be as tech illiterate.
Open source ftw
Why to specify the licenses? Why not all opensource software?
If it’s public domain, is it required? If it’s EUPL, is it required?
It’s not just those specific licences, it’s:
an operating system or application under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the software.
So if you want to protect your kids from adult rated content, and you live in California, you need to buy a propietary system. Which make sure data collectors get to know all about them, and therefore doesn’t protect them… But am I the only one to see the commercial argument about to be used by MS, Apple, and others?
Their websites and services will ask for age verification and Linux will not provide it.
Therefore Linux systems will be barred from using online services. You will need a proprietary spyware OS in order to continue banking, citizen. Please drink a verification can to continue.
There’s nothing preventing Linux from giving online services a random age. Being exempt from the law just means we don’t have to implement real age verification.
There are some steps you can take in Linux but there are also steps you can take regardless of OS. Gnome has built in parental controls. I’m not sure about the other DEs but Gnome has something. Browsers have had controls for a long time.
For those so inclined, you can set up network wide controls via a PiHole instance. If that’s too restrictive, you can pick and choose your kids’ devices to apply the restrictions. That’s what I do. It was super easy. I just update the block list regularly and test it.
As parents, we need to have some awareness of what our kids do online. I’m all in favor of making it easier for parents to do that and better educating parents on what is available.
The big guys might advertise their “new parental controls” but I doubt they will be advertising against Linux and open source. I’m sure Apple will have a version of this that is slightly more privacy respecting than Microsoft and maybe they’ll advertise that. They don’t care about Linux though. Not from a competitive standpoint, not yet.
I hope you are right.
Yet do you know if the thing implemented by California would allow criminals to make sure that a kid is really a kid before they attack? Because if that is the case, and even if it needs a hack to do so, it may do the opposit of its aim.
better but still bad. hope it blows up in their faces in ways worse than i can even imagine.
Geez. Windows is just getting less and less worth it, even for more mainstream consumers.
I don’t think anyone should be using Windows. It’s fascist spyware. Windows users don’t own their systems, Microsoft does.
