Something that is concerning me recently is the push for everything requiring (((age verification))), which is obviously a way to link all online activity to a real life ID to anybody who isn't a normgroid. They're even trying to force it at the OS level

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Chud 04/19/26 (Sun) 14:10:09 №30323 [Quote]

Something that is concerning me recently is the push for everything requiring (((age verification))), which is obviously a way to link all online activity to a real life ID to anybody who isn't a normgroid.
They're even trying to force it at the OS level. People will be all smug thinking "theres no way they can enforce this on linux", but the way things are going they will be able to, all it takes is to put it into law that all OSs have to have it otherwise they are illegal, and since all internet usage can be filtered by the government they can arrest people with the excuse for the cattle masses that "they would use the ID checking OS if they weren't 'ooning to 'p or a terrorist".
It might be worth making physical backups of different OSs on disks or USB sticks now before that happens as a precaution.
What does /tech/ think, am I being paranoid or is this possible. Its scary to think that in a couple of years they could lock down the entire computer space, everything online could be monitored by forcing even browsers to have ID checks, and if you try to go around it you could be arrested and shut down.

Chud 04/19/26 (Sun) 14:18:19 №30324 [Quote]

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and for downloads if you think you can get around it using VPNs and Torrents, I can see a possibility for VPNs to be taken over by intelligence agencies as they know that if you are using it you are trying to hide your activities, and again they can label you as a pedo or terrorist for trying to download anything they won't allow. Torrenters could be tracked down using ISPs and the data taken from VPN services and raided as well.
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All it takes is for governments to make it illegal and its all shut down overnight. How many of you know somebody who shares even remotely similar ideas to those common on the sharty or other chuddy sites irl. None of these beliefs would be allowed on a fully policed internet.