Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

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Otto Kek=C3=A4l=C3=A4inen <[email protected]> wrote on 25/03/2026 at 02:13:32=
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> Hi,
>
> (dropping non-Debian recipients)
>
> I was wondering why so many US states are pushing for this legislation
> instead of the federal government doing just one law and why this all
> is happening in the US right now. While digging I came across this
> group of anonymous researchers who claim that this is the result of
> Meta lobbying for age verification on the OS side, so that the
> dopamine inducing service producer would not be kept accountable or
> required to have any restrictions as the they could argue that the OS
> or the app store has already taken care of doing the restrictions and
> policing.
>
> I do not know if any of this is true, I am just sharing that I found
> this: https://[tbote][project].com/git/hekate/attestation-findings

I know it's not the point, but I sincerely believe we should not
implement any age-verification system.

I know systemd integrated something. I regret this. I can understand why
RedHat doesn't believe to have another choice.

But even thouth I'm not a strong believer in slippery slopes in general,
I'd still believe it to be better if we resist this starting trend that
tries to deprive parents from their responsibilities by enforcing age
verification everywhere.

=2D-=20
PEB

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