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Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by nico on Saturday March 14, 2026 @07:42PM (#47382543)
And LATAM probably soon to follow, specially Argentina with Milei and now Chile with their new right wing president
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by Telemakhos on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:04PM (#47382712)
I don't think this is a left- or right-wing issue: Australia was one of the first to ban kids from social media, and Australia is not right-wing by any measure. Canada is hardly right-wing, but age verification is bill S-210 in their parliament.

What you're seeing is a coordinated push by transnational interests; Meta's name has come up in discussions of the funding behind this push. At the very lest, verifying age also verifies that a person is real and not a bot, so advertising firms like Meta will benefit from verification. That's not right-wing or left-wing but rather the influence of business over the political, and neither wing of the spectrum is immune to corruption.

Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by argsnd on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:25PM (#47382872)
Separate from this policy debate I think you’ll find Australia is a country where the right frequently wins actual majorities of the vote.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by skissane on Sunday March 15, 2026 @03:39AM (#47385148)
> Separate from this policy debate I think you’ll find Australia is a country where the right frequently wins actual majorities of the vote.

Isn't that basically every democratic country?

We can't judge how "right" or "left" the political culture of a country is by how frequently the right or left win office, because in the long-run they tend to win office roughly equally often just about everywhere.

A better way of judging this question, is how the policies of their main left/right parties compare to those of their counterparts in comparable countries

Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by coldtea on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:36PM (#47382960)
>I don't think this is a left- or right-wing issue: Australia was one of the first to ban kids from social media, and Australia is not right-wing by any measure. Canada is hardly right-wing, but age verification is bill S-210 in their parliament.

I'd classify both as very corporate friendly, far centrist, which is just as good as "right wing". Nothing about actually empowering the masses, and even less so the working class, only elite pseudo prograssive talking points.

Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by buu700 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @10:05PM (#47383545)
Agreed, it clearly isn't a matter of left vs right. It's about liberal vs illiberal values. Unfortunately for all of us, liberty is falling out of favor.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by hobom on Saturday March 14, 2026 @10:51PM (#47383822)
Meta was strongly against the Australian social media ban.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by sph on Sunday March 15, 2026 @07:52AM (#47386530)
In Europe Chat Control was pushed by the left-wing Danish government (Social Democrats). And I am still pissed that Trump went with his Greenland nonsense so everyone rallied around the Danes, when in reality the important news is that Mette Frederiksen and her party seem to have vested interest in establishing mass surveillance across the EU bloc.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by sophrosyne42 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:06PM (#47382729)
Milei is a libertarian, and would be very opposed to such a thing.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by a_victorp on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:19PM (#47382821)
I wouldn't bet on it
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by whattheheckheck on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:20PM (#47382826)
Milei will do trumps bidding
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by macintux on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:27PM (#47382887)
Running as a libertarian, and governing as a libertarian, are two entirely different things.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by sophrosyne42 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:40PM (#47382980)
He has been doing pretty well so far.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday March 14, 2026 @09:59PM (#47383503)
Trump owns him now. He has to pay the piper.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by sph on Sunday March 15, 2026 @07:55AM (#47386542)
Words don't mean anything any more. Libertarianism used to be a fringe of anarchism, yet it has devolved into a chimera of its own, especially when looking at American-style libertarianism that is very much pro-State.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by phyzix5761 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:29PM (#47382904)
There's 2 axes on the political spectrum. Economic and Social axes. Liberal and Conservative is one dimension (Economic) and Authoritarian and Libertarian is another dimension (Social).

In the US both the Democratic Party (Liberal) and Republican Party (Conservatives) are considered Authoritarian on this 2 dimensional graph.

Milei claims to be a Conservative Libertarian so, in theory, he should be opposed to this. We'll see what he actually does.

Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by pocksuppet on Saturday March 14, 2026 @10:00PM (#47383515)
There are almost infinite axes. We can do a principal component analysis to find the most important 2.
Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by coldtea on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:34PM (#47382945)
>Milei claims to be a Conservative Libertarian so, in theory, he should be opposed to this. We'll see what he actually does.

That's just for the gullible. In practice he's about power and self-serving interests, just like any "libertarian" in office.