Age Verification for Qubes OS and Whonix (among other Linux Distributions)

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These are active, ongoing discussions on the Qubes OS and Whonix Forum with various external references to forges, mailing lists, and MediaWiki instances of other Linux distributions across the Internet.

Parallel topic at Privacy Guides Community:

See also:

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@adrelanos has provided an update on the Whonix Forum:

One of the multiple references was this Mastodon post from Carl Richell at System76 addressing both the California and Colorado bill:

The claim is that there is a possiility of open-source software being excluded from future bill amendments.

In addition, there is an Ageless Linux distribution based on Debian specifically targeting the legal language of AB 1043:

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@michael from the Qubes OS team has provided a response:

Ageless Linux is claiming that Kicksecure/Whonix will be complying with the age verification API:

I have informed @adrelanos and @arraybolt3 about this discrepancy on the Whonix Forum:

For the current status of Kicksecure and/or Whonix, use the Kicksecure Wiki, not Ageless Linux’s distro compliance tracker:

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Pull request from @arraybolt3 has been merged upstream:

The end of the pull request refers to another GitHub repository, which does not currently list Kicksecure or Whonix (yet):

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