The proposed Chat control EU law will not only seize totalitarian control of all private communication. It will also ban open source operating systems as an unintended consequence.

Should i say more?

I think microsoft has won lastly over linux…

Tl;dr new EU law adds requirement to software distributors (ie. package managers) to verify your age if the app allows users to contact eachother

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Not the package managers as I understand, but the service providers providing the applications; so it would include e.g. everyone hosting package archive mirrors. This all makes no sense, because the Internet, which runs Linux, would basically stagnate.

The EU does have a bit of a track record with breaking the internet. GDPR is the only one that comes to mind, but it was a big one.

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this is so crazy!!!

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