It’s the camels nose into the tent of regulating how an OS should behave. This is anathema for FOSS operating systems. It will cause complete madness if different jurisdictions start regulating operating systems in their own way and could honestly kill FOSS OSes.

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cyanydeez 2 hours ago | parent [-]

is it though? If you setup a PC for a 12 year old and prompts you something like [12~16] and thats reported to whatever, what exactly is the fear? You can scream slippery slope but these laws are just going to boil down to technical capability because enforcement isn't realistic.

There's real harms by large businesses such as Meta. Should we pretend those arms don't exist?

	▲	tliltocatl an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The fear is that being below 18 doesn't mean you have no right to privacy. It's not implementation that's the problem. The whole idea is stupid.
	▲	iamnothere an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is a slippery slope, and enforcement can quickly go from unrealistic to mandatory as we’re seeing in the UK. > There's real harms by large businesses such as Meta. Should we pretend those arms don't exist? Frankly I don’t care. Hands off my operating system. I will set up a guerilla sneakernet before I comply with something like this. Find another way to deal with it.