Comment by iamnothere
8 days ago
In other words, Brazil believes that these companies are subject to the law but they have not moved fast enough on implementation. They are attempting to get feedback while also informing the companies that yes, they are covered under the law.
> not about age verification
The law literally requires age verification. It explicitly prohibits self-declaration.
> The law literally requires age verification. It explicitly prohibits self-declaration.
Ouch, I hadn't read that law before. I think there doesn't exist any verification mechanism that satisfies it.
There isn’t, and there’s no way to do this as a free/open service. Effectively this kills community driven FOSS.
Companies like Canonical could use some kind of paid online service to do this, which could be why they just rolled out cloud login. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-LTS-Authd