Age verification is just a way to force Digital Identity on people globally under the pretext of protecting minors.
In this era of Forced Digitalization, recent but surely planned long ago, comes the rollout on IT systems of age verification, a law that, as usual in a by now fairly established pattern, on one side wants to present itself as a law meant to protect minors from the dangers of the web, while on the other it wants to impose the possession of a digital identity, an electronic version of our person, to impose bans and penalties if we rebel against the dictates of agendas made by bodies elected by no one, and to give us the small reward of a good citizen in the opposite case.
All this in the absolute immobility of people who, however many may be slowly waking from their torpor, are still sunk in inertia, in disinterest, focused only on their small home enclosure: crying because Italy is for the third time out of the World Cup, watching the downright idiotic series scheduled on Netflix where whites are systematically pushed aside by black Herry Potter.
Even on Linux, long a stronghold of Freedom, they are imposing these restrictions, and some distros, instead of standing firm against these authoritarian drifts, support them, giving strength to freedom-killing laws; Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, RHEL, and others have clearly expressed support for these initiatives.
On the contrary, distros such as Devuan, Slackware, Zorin OS, Garuda Linux, Void Linux, EndeavorOS, Omarchy Linux, Adenix GNU/Linux, Ageless Linux, Artix Linux, have stated they actively oppose verification, some by blocking access from those states that require its implementation, which I recall are:
Australia, Brazil, the USA; in Europe, instead, it started by adding mandatory verification on adult sites, but soon more restrictions will arrive, always aimed at imposing Digital Identity.
Other distros like Zorin have stated their stance with statements about the impossibility of implementing these tools, which do not align at all with the goals and philosophy for which Zorin OS was created.
What we can do is protest as well by rejecting any Digital ID, not buying phones that implement these technologies, supporting for example projects like GrapheneOS, and using linux distros that do not accept these impositions.
The promise of convenience of the Digital ID is not comparable, as a benefit, to the loss of freedom that the introduction of these control systems will bring, systems that are never for the good of the individual but to put our lives into the hands of unscrupulous people.
NO DIGITAL ID, NO CONTROL, NO SMART CITIES!!!!!
