With all the different countries and US states expanding age verification laws for various devices, here’s what the Debian Linux team had to say about it.

It continues to be a sticky situation for many Linux distributions, with most taking a wait and see approach. We had previous posts covered here on GamingOnLinux from the likes of Ubuntu and Fedora, while System76 took the fight directly to law makers.

This full statement comes from the current Debian Linux project leader, Andreas Tille, written on their mailing list under “Bits from the DPL” that was posted April 4th.

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      4 days ago

      Right.

      Not taking a stance is actually taking a stance, as in saying “we will comply as soon as we’re asked to.”

      Which is fine to do, I just wish people stopped pretending the mainstream distros are resisting doing something that is clearly unpopular, when in reality they already sided with the law. It’s very different from what AntiX did.