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Btw, Pop OS has said they will comply and add age attestation in case you weren't aware.
If its legally required what are their options? I currently use Pop! OS, what are my options in that scenario? Like legally speaking how does age verification work?
Basically no government who require has ever give plan on how to do. Or what to do. Or what to actually verify (select ok? estimate via face ok? estimate via big data ok? id ok? birth certificate ok? nobody know). Or how make sure root not change birthday after verify... which impossible.
Right because its not actually about age verification or protecting kids. Its about mass surveillance and dominance.
There are many distros that have said they will not implement the age attestation/verification feature into the distro. Many distros are not developed/located in the US, therefore they do not have to comply. The link below is kept updated to show which OSes will or will not comply
github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify
Linking to a conservative fuckwit's GitHub is an interesting choice tho
Ok, I don't know anything about the guy. He may be the biggest fuckwit ever but the page is an accurate up-to-date list of distros confirming whether or not they are implementing the age verification bullshit.
I dont know about what other "distros" are doing, but systemd is adding an optional field to the optional userdb module to store the user's age, and then with xdg a program can query it and it will just return if the user is over 18 or not, then all the distro has to do is add a way to set the age if they want to comply.