Ubuntu is Controlled by a Youngster From the British Army (Background in Mass Surveillance), So One Can Expect Ubuntu to Not Respect Privacy
"Canonical is aware of the legislation and is reviewing it internally with legal counsel"
Context:
- Outsourcing GNU/Linux to Microsoft GitHub Promoted by Microsoft LLM Slop and Army Officers
- Almost a Couple of Years After Microsoft Hijacked the Name 'Sudo' (to Describe Unrelated Windows Stuff) Microsoft Canonical Breaks Sudo in Ubuntu
- Is Ubuntu Compromised? Push Away From GNU and GPL Led by Army Officers.
- Even the Doas Camp is Unhappy About What Microsoft Does to Sudo
- Embrace, Extend, Replace the Original (Or Just Hijack the Word 'Sudo')
- British Army Officer Said Ubuntu Needed to Abandon Sudo for Rust's Imitation of Sudo and You Can Guess What Happened Next...
Having just mentioned Fedora's (IBM; Fedora is just IBM staff) policy on "age verification" (basically surveillance with "attestation"), let's consider Canonical, which is controlled by a CEO/leader from South Africa (a tax evader) that keeps sucking up to Microsoft. They will fight for users' freedoms, right?
No.
They won't.
Forget the meaning of the term "ubuntu"; it's very irrelevant and outdated inside Canonical.
Quoting Liam Dawe's introduction and outline of Ubuntu's position on "attestation", which shows no categorical rejection of it:
With California's new age checking law coming into action in January 2027, there's a lot of discussion on how Linux distributions will be handling it. California are also not the only ones going for it, as it appears Colorado will also be doing a similar thing but that's coming while later - and we can expect more to follow.A post on the Ubuntu developer mailing list has sparked numerous discussions online, with Canonical's VP of Engineering Jon Seager officially replying on the Ubuntu Discourse forum to note:
Over the past couple of days, there has been a lot of commentary about Ubuntu and how it’ll respond to California’s new Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043), which will require operating systems to collect age information at account setup and expose an age “signal” to eligible applications from 2027.
Canonical is aware of the legislation and is reviewing it internally with legal counsel, but there are currently no concrete plans on how, or even whether, Ubuntu will change in response.
The recent mailing list post is an informal conversation among Ubuntu community members, not an announcement. While the discussion contains potentially useful ideas, none have been adopted or committed to by Canonical.
When we have a clear plan, we will publish it through our usual channels.
To better understand what's at stake revisit what we wrote last week.
This is the sort of thing advanced by the same fake 'geeks' (with no relevant qualifications in Computer Science!) who cheer for rootkits in "anticheat" clothing, TPMs, kill switches and back doors, which they call "security". █
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