I draw the line at when a third party internet-connected service is doing validation of ID. Let’s be honest though, I strongly believe such a thing isn’t possible on a FOSS operating system environment unless they could control what was bootable on the device at a firmware level, enforce signatures to ensure that you couldn’t boot something unrestricted, remove the ability to be root, and block LD_PRELOAD so signals couldn’t be faked. There’s probably more ways to circumvent that.
What I’m trying to say is real ID verification on Linux would be awfully hard to implement, and I guarantee you, nobody would put up with it. They’d fork to a version that doesn’t have it immediately as a protest. Right now, we’re considering implementing something akin to the date pickers that were ubiquitous when signing up for internet services in the early 2000s where it’s just an honor system.
What is being talked about isn’t telling websites anything. You are fundamentally misunderstanding what the change even did.
No I’m not. If your PC has a flag that tells a website it needs to block that PC from viewing it…that is information that does not need to be shared, and can be abused by the Epstein pals that are pushing this legislation.
Again, that isn’t at all what it being talked about here. You’re making up a fictitious thing to be mad at.
You’re trying to constrain the conversation to not include the overall push towards exactly what I’m talking about. This specific action was in anticipation of what I’m talking about. You’re naive if you think this is where they’re stopping
You’re talking about a collective “they” and the ultimate result of a whole bunch of slippery slope bullshit.