Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you are. We won't

Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by freedomben on Sunday March 15, 2026 @10:22AM (#47387645)

How many kids do you have? What software do you use for this continuous monitoring? How do you balance spending 18 hours a day continuously monitoring your children, with also working full-time and being a human yourself? Please elaborate on your personal system because I think you could help out a lot of people.

I am strongly against this age verification, I think this is an absolutely, catastrophically terrible idea. However, I'm also a parent who has been in the trenches. This is a damn hard problem, and we will lose our access to computing and a relatively free internet if we just sit back and say that it's on parents and parents are stupid if they don't know how to solve this problem.

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Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by widowlark on Sunday March 15, 2026 @12:32PM (#47389001)

having children is a choice. Therefore, the difficulty of that choice is not really a factor in our lawmaking nor should it be.

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Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by themadturk on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:48PM (#47389844)

Is it, though? The trajectory right now is to remove the choice of parenthood. If some people in power have their way, it will not only be illegal to end a pregnancy, it will also be illegal to prevent it to start with. If a male and female have sex (and I doubt a sufficient number of people will give up having hetero sex), the result will often be a child, and there will be no safe, legal choice in the matter.

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Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by widowlark on Sunday March 15, 2026 @05:27PM (#47392137)

I certainly want people to have easy access to contraception and abortion. However, I also think that it's still a choice. I never said it was a good one (I agree, you'd be hard pressed to stop folks from having sex)

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Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by gzread on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:29PM (#47389606)

If we make laws that make it impractical to have children, I'm sure this will have no consequences for the country's future.

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Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by widowlark on Monday March 16, 2026 @10:53PM (#47408014)

no one said anything about making laws making it more difficult to have children - and laws like age requirements don't make it easier, either

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Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by lucyjojo on Friday March 20, 2026 @04:23AM (#47451911)

societally having children is not a choice

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Re:Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you... by duxup on Sunday March 15, 2026 @03:07PM (#47390729)

I have 2 kids. I choose to limit when they have access to electronics and monitor when they do.

No software is going to stop kids with constant access to electronics, kids are resourceful.

It's a choice, there's no getting around that.

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