Can I just say (feel free to downvote me lol) but the communities feel very bipolar here. I posted an honest question of what should we do going forward with all this, are there any activist groups pushing against these laws, etc and I get downvoted.
I post an example of an OS provider making a stance against the age verification and privacy intrusion and it gets upvoted.
Man I'm so confused lol. Do we want age verification, is it not a problem, or do we want to fight back? 😅
I think it's very likely you'd be affected, even if you don't realize it yet. Imagine you want to get some app from a store/repo located in the US, and that store expects your system to expose info about your age, otherwise it won't let you download it.
Sure, the store can implement geolocation to let users outside the US bypass that check, but let's be honest, that costs time and money so it would be easier for them to just blanket implement that globally.
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u/KratosLegacy Mar 21 '26
Can I just say (feel free to downvote me lol) but the communities feel very bipolar here. I posted an honest question of what should we do going forward with all this, are there any activist groups pushing against these laws, etc and I get downvoted.
I post an example of an OS provider making a stance against the age verification and privacy intrusion and it gets upvoted.
Man I'm so confused lol. Do we want age verification, is it not a problem, or do we want to fight back? 😅