So if you haven't been looking around lately, there is a troubling push from some gov't's: Age Verification

Now this is being billed as a "keep kids safe", but, as usual for any Leftie policy, the reality is the exact opposite.

Overview:
The push is for every OS (Linux, Windows, Mac, and I assume FreeDOS too) to implement:
1. A way to "reasonably" verify a person's age and store it away.
2. An API for applications (which includes browsers) to use that API and get the age.

The excuse is "we don't want little Johnny to hack in to dad's laptop and surf porn sites".
The reality is "this is the first step to knowing who you are on the computer and tracking everything you do/say/etc."

It's unknown if they will make Micro$oft revamp MS-DOS for our vintage computers to include this feature.
But I guess CP/M will be safe for a while since DRI is gone.
I have no idea how they will make this work on TRS-80's and Commodores, though.

This is already law in The People's Socialist Utopia of California and the Dictatorship of Brazil and is currently up for a vote in the pot smoking Mile High state of Colorado. (Do you see the trend here?)

I don't know about you, but the last time I fired up Leisure Suit Larry on the NuXT, I couldn't play it because I couldn't answer the age verification questions.

There is already opposition to this.
IHMO: I don't see where California and Colorado have the authority in the first place.
Some Linux distros have already said "we aren't going to change anything and if you live in California, you are not allowed to use our software."
And of course, if Brazil makes any demands, we can laugh in their Evil Dictator's face and ignore them - and maybe move to Wyoming and sue them through their GRANITE act.

But this is all window dressing. The real purpose here is
1. To have the Elitists assert their control over other people's property (i.e. operating systems, computers)
for the purpose of
2. Control.


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Some Linux distros have already said "we aren't going to change anything and if you live in California, you are not allowed to use our software."

Facebook requires users to be "at least 13 years old." That's Facebook's way of saying "13 is fair game for sexual predators." The other problem is how do they expect to verify that a user is 13? By forcing them to submit a photo so that some pervert in an underground Hawaiian bunker can guess their age?

You're right that it's a control thing. Some people have the "sysgod" mentality.

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