For solutions that back on actually “verifying” the age by requiring credit card or government ID, those suck.
As described, this is an administrator self describing the age, which doesn’t mean much to anyone except kids of people who apply parental controls to systems their kids have access to.
Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.
This proposal seems to be in the spirit of least intrusive means to let parents opt into this stuff if they want, with no ties to identity compromising third party/state “verification”.
Question is whether this sort of solution that at least gives parents some chance will satisfy the lawmakers long term. For the wave of laws now, it seems to suffice to self attest age.
Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.
They don’t require anything. You can leave that empty or just put John Doe. All that is required for an account on a Linux system is a username and a password.
For solutions that back on actually “verifying” the age by requiring credit card or government ID, those suck.
As described, this is an administrator self describing the age, which doesn’t mean much to anyone except kids of people who apply parental controls to systems their kids have access to.
Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.
This proposal seems to be in the spirit of least intrusive means to let parents opt into this stuff if they want, with no ties to identity compromising third party/state “verification”.
Question is whether this sort of solution that at least gives parents some chance will satisfy the lawmakers long term. For the wave of laws now, it seems to suffice to self attest age.
They don’t require anything. You can leave that empty or just put John Doe. All that is required for an account on a Linux system is a username and a password.
I don’t think they were referring to Linux in general, I think it was specifically talking about Fedora