Instead of laws, how about parents take responsibility for parenting?

Come back when you understand how it works.

>Why is it the business of my OS vendor how old I am?

*nix supports fields for full name, location, phone numbers, email address, password, etc. Do you think your OS vendor knows what they are?

"There's no call for that sort of crap."

Depends on who you threaten. Celebrating Charlie Kirk's death should be treason punishable by death, celebrating Robert Mueller's death? Just another day. Death threats against doctors at health clinics A-OK, it just depends on who does the threatenin'

Anything can go away. People need to realize who the enemy is and what the rules actually are. We now have a Constitution that does not apply to the President, we have major media that is corrupted by billionaires and controlled by political parties, we now have a corrupt Supreme Court with a supermajority of partisan, Catholic justices. Linux can go away tomorrow, just like citizens can be gunned down in the streets and military veterans can get deported. Go ahead, connect that contraband Linux box to the internet, nothing bad will happen, right?

I'm sure Elon Musk will have an answer though. Just buy the Musk linux edition he invented. He's world's foremost linux authority, after all, and no one knows free speech like he does. Probably worth a 100B government contract.

Why keep saying "politicians" here? I know why, just look who posted it.

Age verification is an outgrowth of the christian nationalism, it is a core part of Republican identity politics. Stop voting Republican and stop supporting politically active chiurches. Bet you won't say that though. Instead, you need to pretend that Democrats are to blame...in Florida!

"...does very little to prevent children from accessing adult material online. "

It's not intended to. Its purpose is to own the libs. You should know about that.

Right, it is a non-functional solution that fails to solve ANY problem. Great virtue signaling though!

Requiriing a trusted source other than the OS (because the OS cannot do it) does not mean that age is not the OSes "business", it means that two components have it as their "business".

But understand that in this case, some people want other people to break the law. They aren't willing to be accountable themselves.

No he didn't. What evidence do you have that says otherwise? Particularly when the remedy is to break the law.

It is when the government says it is. Literally the easiest question there is.

Elaborate. Why does this law need to be "worked around"? And how does NOT adding age information in a database serve that purpose? In what world does a judge accept an argument that there isn't a way to determine age because there isn't an entry in a database? Or that an entry cannot be added on a judge's order? Just what argument gets won because of your "workaround"?

It appears you claim to be an "actual adult" here, too bad you lack the intellect of one.

Slavery was once legal because there were not laws AGAINST it. Laws don't make things legal, they make them illegal.

"Having a plan is great but this fight is far from over."

Not sure what you mean by not over, but there are ways to fight unjust laws besides committing crimes.

>Instead, you could use flags: unverified, verified-minor, verified-adult.

And what if someone comes of age tomorrow or a year from now, you insensitive clod?

"They run as a rectangular banner at the bottom — part of a widget that also shows news, the weather and a calendar. "

False, they run in an optional screen saver, not when the display is being used for interaction. It's not a "widget", it's a screen saver, and only a transitional one.

"...and that overall pushback has been negligible."

Right, because the ads run in a screen saver, and no one sees the screen saver. They've walked away already.

"Bosworth thinks it's wrong to take away the new feature as a condition."

The screen saver is NOT a "new feature", and most users aren't aware it exists. I personally have not seen it.

"Wanting to keep the widget but not the ads..."

He wants to see an animation for 2 minutes before his screen goes dark? After he's done using the fridge? Please.

"He hasn't seen another since."

I've never seen one at all. That's because I use the fridge and then leave, just like everyone else.

"One 27-year-old plans to return his refrigerator after the entire display "lit up with a full-screen ad for Apple TV's sci-fi show Pluribus," according to the article. The all-caps ad beckoned him "with an oft-used refrain directed at protagonist Carol Sturka: 'We're Sorry We Upset You, Carol.'""

Doubt it. This article is really trying to lie to you.