Raw LLM Responses

*Meta is full of sh*t! They are paying millions of dollars to lobbying organisations, pushing for age verification on the operating system level, so they no longer have to care about the users age at all, pushing the liability to the OS manufacturer.* This is very problematic however, because you could possibly enforce this on Microsoft, Apple and Google operating systems, but not on free, open-source systems like Linux or BSD (Unix). This has three reasons: On free, open-source systems, the system administrator (often: the owner) can access and edit ANY file, so any saved user age information could be modified at any time. This is - with some tricks - also possible on Windows (accessing the hidden SYSTEM account) and possibly MacOS, iOS and Android as well - the effort required however may differ. The other problem is, that on open-source systems, due to their nature, every user can get and modify the source code files and patch them, so that age verification at account setup is skipped and the age is automatically set to "adult". After compiling the modified files and replacing the original binaries, the OS would be age-verification-free again. These modifications would likely also spread online, so not everyone would have to do this manually. Last, but not least: A law needs to be enforcable. But in case of many open-source OS, it would not be. Whom would you like to sue? An organiastion? Fine, you can do that. A single individual? Maybe. But open-source OS are often developed by a whole bunch of poeple with no centralised organisation on top and no central responsible person, so you cannot sue anyone - except you try the "sue all" approach, which is unfeasable. Community-only systems are, for example, Debian/GNU Linux, Arch Linux, Linux Mint (although based on Canonical's Ubuntu) and many more. There is a real risk, that these new laws, currently coming into effect in 2 US states and in Brazil, also in consideration in other areas, will limit the free choice of an operating system, reduced privacy (because any app can then ask the OS for the user's age) and - because this age verification is not safe at all - will cause even higher risk for kids online than with proper age verification on online platforms. Some operating systems already - in fear of being sued - forbid users of countries with mandatory OS age verification to even download their software, MidnightBSD (a Unix-based system) for example. Thanks, Meta!