This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
See you in a year or 2.
Play as old as times:
Foot in the door technique is a timeless way to get what you want. People seem oblivious to it.
I mean it makes total sense the minute you think about it at all.
It's the same with laws.
It's very hard to get the electorate united to oppose something but if they manage to unite and oppose a bill the lobbyists are back at work on Monday pushing it by a different name.
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 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.
