Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet

In January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a connection to marque operating systems cod users' ages and walk them to app developers. The bill, SB26-051, had intelligibly been designed for commercialized platforms similar iOS and Android - 1 of galore plans to age-gate the net done users' devices. It was intended to supply accusation that would fto developers disable age-inappropriate experiences for kids. But arsenic it made the rounds online, Linux laptop shaper Carl Richell work the connection with dismay.

Carl Richell is the laminitis and CEO of Dever-based System76, which besides develops the Pop!_OS Linux distribution. The law, helium realized, would …

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