Wednesday, 4 March 2026

Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

I think that for the time being Debian (and other Linux distributions) should
do nothing towards implementing this dangerous legislation.

https://reason.com/2026/03/04/computer-scientists-caution-against-internet-age-verification-mandates/

I expect that it will be either overturned or unenforced in the United States,
at least in the short run.

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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org