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It’s being exempt because the Government can’t enforce this requirement on FOSS. Linux isn’t managed by a corporation and I don’t think people realize this yet.
I would pay money to hear Linus on the phone with these self-important assholes.
Give homie some credit, I think he would at least ask "why?" first. Then also wish them "good luck!" on enforcing it.
You can't force it on any Linux distro, but on everybody who has to give a shit about compliance.
Red Hat is the biggest power on Linux.
I mean they could force big corpo to not allow anyone who can't verify age to use their services.
This is sponsored by meta to push the age requirement tracking onto the os rather than Facebook directly to avoid liability when under age kids access harmful content
Which is insane, as the OS doesn't have any way to authoritatively measure the user's age and so they have to be 'honor system' where the age is whatever the user says the age is, or require some online account with identity validation, which is what facebook tries to do anyway.
An unverified age bracket in the OS that provides that to web services is the correct way to do it (a parent setting up a computer or account for a kid checks one box and suddenly google safe search, etc, everyone else doesn't check the box, done).
I suspect meta is hoping to get better unique account to human mapping in their surveillance machine.