I’m asking because I just had to verify my age thanks to YouTube requiring me to watch a video that was age restricted.

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    4 months ago

    Afaik there is already an exception being made now to exclude Open Source operating systems from this requirement, so seems like anything Linux-based would be fine for now

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      4 months ago

      For Now there’s an exception in some states in the US. The one that is going through the federal government in the US does not have that exception for what I understand… they are also trying to make a federal law in the United States that says when you activate a new cell phone, you will have to do age verification on it. it will start as just a simple showing government issued ID. But every law gets bigger. So then they’ll just add in some sort of face scan on it.