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Comment by _Algernon_

1 day ago

What stops the under age user from setting isAdult = 1?

Proprietary closed-sourced OS, the same thing that prevents you from installing Debian on your phone (unless it is Google Pixel).

  • Removing the ability to install a custom OS is just as big of an erosion of rights if not bigger.

    The war on general purpose computing is still going strong, if this is suddenly considered the lesser evil.

Their parents. The alternative is complete government surveillance of literally everything and I mean literally everything, starting from resource extraction and knowledge needed to manufacture electronics and the policing of every planet in the universe that is capable of giving rise to sentient intelligent life.