I have wondered how this is going to work with a Live Boot, with something like TAILS.
Just use VPN to download your ageless Linux distro. As long as EU does not require such, there will be versions free of that. And of course, fight back as long as there is a chance to avoid it (talk to your US politicians).
I’m hopeful, but not optimistic about that.
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I am optimistic. EU would shot in their own foots otherwise, because they are joining the FOSS world (especially France and Germany, which both are the two most important EU countries). And as long as there is a Pirate in EU parliament, there is an expert who can teach others about the issues. Also don’t forget the digital NGOs, which are very strong here.
But most important, we also have anti mass surveillance Constitutions in EU (national and EU wide). They saved us so many times already and since we are speaking about FOSS, kids can ask ALAs (algorithmical lossy archives aka AI models) how to remove that entry from their systems (or even give them the rights to do it for them). Which makes it absurd to even think about implementing it.
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Some people are thinking that the reason this idea is getting so much unanimous support is because Meta is lobbying for it, because they’re in a situation where this is the only way they can comply with existing laws, like COPPA, without actually asking users to upload their government IDs (I suppose they depend on bot activity to some extent).
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
If you have some ID-Card, your computer could just read it an can verify Age, like cigarettes vending machines and it could done easy without lost of anonymity. So Linux only need to implement this low burden, after boot up and suggest some user. However root could do everything just not have access like user(s) to the full DRM or aged verified Internet.
So that is an easy option.
However most likely the rest of the internet will use it to get verification about every account to sell validated information.
California, et al are putting the cart before the horse.
A protocol and neutral reference implementation for anonymous age verification with sufficient granularity to only reveal actually needed information, for example, over some age, with exact birthday reserved for only when actually needed is long overdue.
The reference implementation should be open source cross patform CLI since all GUI apps should be GUI wrappers around CLI anyway, and trillion dollar companies, and even much smaller, are more than capable of developing an all proprietary all dancing elephants app from scratch. Governments would be wise to forbid closed source and should be absolutely forbidden from requiring and proprietary app.
I think the EU is closest to this, but still woefully short. California might be big enough to do this, but I don’t see why this couldn’t be done as a global effort. The UN is probably too broke, but a global assessment based on, say GDP, would be trivial even for US, China, Germany, Japan, etc.