On Fri, 2026-03-06 at 17:02 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 04:41:14PM +0000, Some Guy called wrote: > > Will Debian add age verification to comply with Californian laws? > > > > Looking forward to your answer! > > As only users of Debian we are not in a position to speak for the > project. > > It is already being discussed on the debian-devel and debian-legal > mailing lists. There seems to be a desire for some level of unified > response from major distributions like Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2026/03/msg00000.html > > Thanks, > Andy
"request the user's age or date of birth at "account setup" is really really gonna work, fer sure, this time. This is what big-government types do. They create or find or invent a problem, then insist they can solve it, then make sure they don't solve it, and use the continuing existence of the problem as another way to continue the campaign promise "elect me and I'll fix it," which they have no intention to do.
