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For floss operating systems someone will inevitably maintain a (potentially illegal) fork/patch that bypasses the age check. The same will be true for repos and flathub, there will be a mirror without verification for most stuff. Just like youtube hasn’t been able to smash yt-dlp yet I imagine that there will be bypasses that fake an “adult token” to send to websites.
What we can do is:
a) Join organizations, eff.org exists and maybe your country has a local organization too?
b) Discuss privacy with friends, we all have things we’d rather keep hidden - a medical journal, a hobby most find childish or a kinky sex toy. That doesn’t make us criminal. Encourage them to accept newsletters from eff and similar groups.
c) Question your politicians about their view on privacy, we must make noise for them to care.
d) Submit letters to your local newspaper in regards to privacy. If they publish it that’s a win and if they don’t then maybe you got a journalist interested enough to write a full article. Someday.
e) Join politics and work inside the system to protect privacy for everyone.
f) Go offline. Host get-togethers in real life, create regular groups that meet outside the internet, read books, play tabletop games.
g) Become a hermit, plant potatoes, feed the birds. Live far away from town.
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I like option G, lol.
I’m really hoping for the fork/patch because that seems like something that is well enough within my skill range and time availability to manage. Ideally, there will be a dark web mirror available for that kind of thing because I have a funny feeling that VPN’s might be in the crosshairs too.
The worst part is the “save the children” mentality of it all. It gives them license to pursue offenders to the utmost extent because “think of the kids!” It’s hard to get an average person to feel sorry for a big Hollywood studio or Google being unable to sell your data, but when it comes to preventing a kid from seeing a boob, scorched earth methods are immediately authorized and usually approved of in the court of public opinion.
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C2) Organize and participate in protest marches, petitions, and strikes against this.
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