Two very different reactions to Age Verification. Slackware says, "I doubt these laws would survive a challenge." While Fedora says, "It's a matter of hopefu...
"I’ll weigh in a little bit here, I guess. At this point, I’d rather not implement something like this and don’t see the point of the legislation as written (other than, more than likely, get a foot in the door.) But my code is my speech. I doubt these laws would survive a challenge, as it’s pretty clearly government compelled speech.
Any lawyers looking for a test case? :-)"
I can’t find anything concrete from Fedora but the Fedora leader was thinking of ways to comply in some manner a month ago and had more ideas recently
Slackware founder Patrick Volkerding https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6626190
"I’ll weigh in a little bit here, I guess. At this point, I’d rather not implement something like this and don’t see the point of the legislation as written (other than, more than likely, get a foot in the door.) But my code is my speech. I doubt these laws would survive a challenge, as it’s pretty clearly government compelled speech.
Any lawyers looking for a test case? :-)"
I can’t find anything concrete from Fedora but the Fedora leader was thinking of ways to comply in some manner a month ago and had more ideas recently
A month ago: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/california-age-verification/181968
More recent: https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-leader-suggests-age-verification-api/