Comment by iamnothere
1 day ago
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.
IMO it's more likely to lead to a renaissance in FOSS OS use. Not requiring a legal entity and being geographically diffuse makes them immune to this kind of pressure in a way that Apple and Microsoft are not.
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?
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.
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.