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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: kde.modular.im: "I am at least 16 years old. "
From:       Ben Cooksley <bcooksley () kde ! org>
Date:       2019-02-20 10:11:14
Message-ID: CA+XidOFZyhZMbguKFuVw1tYx-0TRvBb90JLFBC0N_yq++jxnfw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:04 PM Boudewijn Rempt <boud@valdyas.org> wrote:
> 
> There's the https://kde.modular.im/_matrix/consent?h=6fc7fefb99181b28ffdf2be32225ead05a8cd6c148da23482edbcc4b08ce7ddd&u=boud \
> page you need to agree to before one can join. And it asks people to confirm that \
> they're older than 16. 
> Why do we have this condition? There are plenty of reasons why we would need people \
> younger than 16 to be able to chat with people in the KDE community. We've had \
> contributors and even people giving presentations at Akademy who were younger than \
> 16.

My guess would be because those under the age of 16 are likely treated
differently under rules like the GDPR (see
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-8-gdpr/ for instance)

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Cheers,
Ben


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