{"id":16058,"date":"2026-03-03T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=16058"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:27:05","slug":"ubuntu-planning-mandatory-age-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/ubuntu-planning-mandatory-age-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Planning Mandatory Age Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Linux is definitely being targeted with age verification in the build up to digital ID. Two bad corporate actors in the space are Ubuntu and IBM\/Red Hat, so it will be interesting to see how the rest of the opensource community adapts to the California law<\/a> (and Colorado<\/a>?) for age verification with a $7,500 fine per each violation. And it looks like they want to add it in a suspicious way to try and push it to other distributions. I’m sure we’ll get a fork and more distributions saying you can’t use their software in California. The push to Rust by Ubuntu is also interesting, as it limits hardware and might possibly be a way to integrate agentic AI more easily? Consequently, Ubuntu has long been a distribution to avoid, so we’ll see how the corporate and government coercion for the control of Linux progresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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