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Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org)
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Which move are you referring to? Because most of them include far more than that.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Some guy put a PR in to the Linux kernal and to systemd, IIRC. The community pushback was huge, despite it literally just being a field users could fill in themselves if they wanted.

    I'm not sure if he ended up succeeding. IIRC last time I checked it was in systemd but not Linux, but that could have changed and I could be misremembering.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I think it was accepted in systemd. There was no commit in the kernel because such things are really don't belong in the kernel.

    But the law it was a response too is horrible. If any 'app', regardless of it including any unsafe content (or content at all really) must ask for this information from the OS. Otherwise the developer and/or controller (which can be whoever installed the app) is liable for thousands of dollars.

    This only makes sense if you think the only 'apps' that exist are ones written by FAANG.

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