I find it odd to protect children they will stalk the hell out of us but won’t arrest known pedophiles …
I hate the world
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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It's not to protect children though. It's for political surveillance.
Exactly. Governments around the world, including the U.S., of course, have made it crystal clear through their actions that they don't give a fuck about protecting children.
Better to just hate the whole Epstein Class. They trash the world for everyone else..
We’ve had a name for them for the last 200 years: the capitalist class, or to be more precise, the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.
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If everyone voting for these age requirements don't also vote to require you to use an ID to unlock the safety on a gun or remove a knife from the knife rack, they aren't voting on this to protect the children.
Knives and guns need age verification before someone seeing Kate Upton showing her breasts.
Im going side with none of it needs age verification, and all of it needs parental guidance
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Yeah apparently it's fine for them to fuck kids but too immoral to risk kids seeing people fucking.
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This is insane. They have to view your images to deem of they are explicit...
Basically a year away from a universal internet ID that will track all movements and can be restricted if your government doesn't like you.
Apple already views your images for child porn.
They probably do it for people like Donald and all his Epstein friends to save and pre order.
Has this expanded from iCloud uploads? It's crazy how using a device now requires users to allow company full access yo everything.
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To get a sim card in Australia you need to show identification. There is no anonymity.
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After commercial OS have age verification they will remove it from the programs because the age was already verified, right?
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When I first decided to switch to Linux, I started exclusively using apps that were available on Linux. This way I was able to gradually transition my workflows one app at a time without any rush. When I was ready to install Linux, I did it on a new computer so I still had access to everything on the old computer and there was no risk of going computer-less if the installation went sideways.
Also, keep in mind that Asahi only works on M1 and M2 Macs. (If you have an old Intel Mac, you can just run normal Linux without Asahi)
Oh and Veronica Explains has a great video about her experience with Asahi.
This might be a stupid question but when using ashai can you run any normal linux software or does it have to be specifically built for arm64/apple silicon?
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Fuuuuck with apple doing this, I wonder how long we have until this BS enters Android and Linux Kernel.
Lmao good fucking luck enforcing this on Linux. There's no central authority to handle age verification, and even if there was, it'd take less than a week for someone to make a patched version of whatever tool they use that just... Autoreports that you're an adult no matter what.
Well when we have to comply we can make a build flag everyone shut toggle off...
I suggest simply never complying. Anyone who does is a traitor. This is FOSS, they have no control over us, ZERO power to enforce compliance.
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I don't give a shit what children see.
They'll live.
Stop spying on adults.
I mean some shit you find online is pretty grim but when I was a kid I knew the internet was for adults and didn't expect everything to be catered to me. Now the status quo seems to be "every website must be kid/advertiser friendly and PG13 by default, everything else must be locked behind a verification prompt". How did we get here?
It's just a facade to justify mining more data for power, influence and money.
Simple as that.
We let 5 companies control the internet. Instead of being the distributed thing it was dreamed up to be we allowed it to consolidate.
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So now California has a governor pretending to be pro-Palestine to do damage control while signing laws that give Zionist corporations more control over your data and hardware
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Yep
Google tried a few years back but there was pushback. Google will slowly boil the frog tho.
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If the West follows into the footsteps of the propaganda they are spreading against China, I'd rather go live in China because at least there people don't live paycheck to paycheck despite working multiple jobs. Every accusation against China was a confession.
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Thank you, Tim Apple, for making 2026 the year of the Linux desktop (but not necessarily the Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint desktop).
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What...is this shit? What's the real reason behind this? What senator or governor has a brother in law in the age verification business that got this corruptioned into being a thing all of a sudden?
Surveillance data
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Wait, send explicit images? I'm not a child, I get that on these platforms my privacy is pretty well gone, but is it explicitly known (confirmed from the source) that these companies scan your images too?
That feels extra fucked up. Like "hold on a sec bucko let me check this photo you're trying to send real quick to make sure it's not titties "
They definitely do. That’s how you can search photos by their content on iOS or android.
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I’ll figure out a way to bypass this or switch to Linux entirely.
And then probably end up in a camp.
"Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to download this Linux ISO"
"Must be outside of California, Colorado, and Brazil to proceed with installation"
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They should just be done with it and implant an id chip at birth
Data freely available to our capitalistic gods and politicians
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