The fun part of open source is that someone smarter than me will inevitably just update the existing spoofing tools to include whatever checks those platforms are using.

Fuck the platforms. We'll make our own.

"Thank you for not forcing me to participate in your getting-kicked-in-the-balls program... But perhaps just don't?"

Why are you waiting for this? This is already the reality; example: fansly uses the ID verification service ondato, which only works on chrome browsers and tries to detect "tampered camera feeds", ofc it doesn't work on Linux.

Not exactly. They can always take this one step further and make it more difficult to use anything but closed OSs for fundamental applications, like banking. It could come via an ID requirement where authentication goes through some complicated process with proprietary hardware and drivers. That could also come in phases, such as mandating all desktop/laptop distributors require it prior to distribution. Then the tech giants can market it like, “never require a password again, if you have…” effectively marketing back the convenience they helped take. Sooner or later, it’s a piece of shit system that banks and jobs rely on, everybody ends up accepting it while complaining that it makes a terrible password for obvious reasons (ref: your Social Security card).

In a perfect world this means that closed ecosystem operating systems. Like windows, Mac and android. Who have an unfair amount of control and power over their customer base. Will be held to a higher standard by the law.

Since the potential for abuse is higher with windows or android then say arch or fedora.

That increased control should come at a downside of increased responsibility. There's nothing stopping Microsoft or Google from releasing control and becoming more transparent in theory.

So if everything was in magical fairy land. This sort of enforced liability would push software towards more open standards with less burden of responsibility on the creators and more responsibility on the user.

Since really that's where the responsibility should mostly be. It should be the user or parents of the user who decide how a system is used. And it should be the users responsibility to ensure they are adhering to laws and regulations.

Its unenforcoble in the first placr

There may have also been some big money lobbyists from companies like Google, Amazon, etc, that pointed out how much money it would have cost their poor shareholders to implement.

Ding ding

But that isn’t mandated in the laws

Regardless they can destroy the clearnet and we’ll make our own internet with blackjack and hookers

It's back to the same question from the early days of the Internet. "How do you know the person you are talking to isn't a cat?". How can you know they aren't a cat or maybe a clever monkey taking a break from typing Shakespeare, or how old they are, or who they even are?

You can't.

You can implement every security measure available and anyone can simply lie or bypass it.

If by some miracle they actually implemented some age verification tech for OS and websites and the Internet as a whole, it will just pop up an underground market of "fake IDs" or hacks to get past it.

I expect I'll need a phone that I turn on from time to time that's got all my details logged so I can access things like banking and tax.

A future Linux install prompt: "Which state do you live?"

Everyone: Why, "California", of course. Glad you asked.

There's no way to enforce age verification, like on websites or closed software, in even normal circumstances, but if it's open source or offline how could you even begin to attempt it? It's so silly.

IBM has a Linux distro, Linux is not going anywhere