Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age

Post by WJW » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 11:52 PM UTC

brightball wrote: post #45

nextos wrote: post #14

Something remarkable and unsettling is how the age verification debate has popped up almost simultaneously in the US, UK, and EU. With the same logical fallacies. Pretty telling about how transnational lobbies and their interests work. Controlling what children do online is a solved problem: Parenting and parental control applications.

It’s not if you’ve paid attention to political trends for the last 15 years. Everything is happening at the same time in every country. It’s clearly being coordinated.

Post by dangus » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 11:52 PM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #40

pocksuppet wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should that be our problem when we can just tell parents to parent?

because parents get to vote same as you, and it looks like they are winning. there are many problems in the libertarian utopia that could be dumped on individuals ("if you don't like it, don't leave your house") but equally unfortunately many prefer a socialist utopia with lots of social and financial controls

Post by pocksuppet » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 11:52 PM UTC

terribleperson wrote: post #16

I honestly think the pushback against the California law is a mistake. We are being presented with an increasing number of services demanding identity verification, in the form of ID verification and/or video verification. California is offering an alternative to that, an alternative that only requires you provide your age, without verifying it. If the California law flops, the result isn't going to be no age verific…

Post by sophrosyne42 » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC

softwaredoug wrote: post #23

The problem is we’re regulating individual behavior by adding to the surveillance apparatus. We should be regulating the companies and dismantling the surveillance that makes the apps addictive to kids. It’s a way of socializing the losses, this time you lose civil liberties and they get to keep acting unrestricted

Post by applfanboysbgon » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

terribleperson wrote: post #68

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Average Joe is happy to give away a photo of his ID. I don't think this is actually true. Discord walked back its implementation of global age verification for now because it was protested so heavily. Governments can get away with mandating ID for porn sites and Average Joe will not make a ruckus about it because it's a shameful/embarrassing topic they would rather sweep under the rug, but I don't think Average Joe…

Discord's still doing it, they just delayed it and will supposedly be offering other verification options. They still amount to identity verification, and the noose will be tightened over time.