Age verification would not be necessary if people generally had the common sense to stop sending their valuable data to large companies doing very bad things. But they don't. So it is. Free speech for Meta is censorship against the rest of us. Delete your FaceBroke and InstaGrope accounts today!

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM Brian E. Lavender brian@brie.com wrote:

Age Verification taking over free software. Check this article regarding Debian.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Undecided-Age-Laws

There is also a bill going through for age verification for social media that EFF has taken a position against.

https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification

Brian

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