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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: kde.modular.im: "I am at least 16 years old. "
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2019-02-20 10:14:10
Message-ID: 24629569.TdfJNc4Tqt () boud-thinkpad-t470p
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On woensdag 20 februari 2019 11:11:14 CET Ben Cooksley wrote:
> 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)

Maybe the text could be changed to "You're over 16 or have parental permission" ?

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