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Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. (youtu.be)

submitted 1 week ago by qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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TLDW:

Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.

New York about to vote on a law that would "require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

Everyone who was casually onboard with this because it felt righteous can fuck off.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do not link Lunduke in here. He is, literally, an insane bigot.

It does not matter how factual or not the particular thing he is reporting on in this particular instance is.

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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

please don't get this guy any attention. he is a far right conspiracy theorist.

[–] SalamenceFury@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've heard about gringos saying all of this about Brazil forcing age verification, but I literally cannot find any article in any Brazilian news website talking about this. So either this entire thing is a hallucination or someone got the wrong info.

[–] Staden@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago

Em outro comentário mandaram esse link.

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago

Interesting discussion on this from yesterday on the NixOS forums:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/compliance-with-u-s-age-verification-laws/75791

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With my YT, Steam, and email account being old enough to drink, will they till force me to upload ID?

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago

Get fucked.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

who exactly gonna stop me from downloading an operating system from massgrave or linuxtracker? bunch of burocratic morons.

[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess a broken clock is right twice a day. Bitter Lunduke don't fool yourself this guy is a tool

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[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Dumb phones are about to get crazy popular. I miss my Pebbl.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wow they really are just pushing it now lol.

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