Tristris@chaos.social
Sep 21, 2026, 2:14 PMI was wondering like age verification compliance, if open source custom ROM that has Indian users need to something for compliance
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- Tristris@chaos.socialSep 21, 2026, 2:14 PM
perrylibreinator@fe.disroot.orgSep 21, 2026, 3:01 PM@tris not sure if this answers your question but the government of India usually puts the onus of complying with government orders on phone manufacturers. Since other OSes like LineageOS or postmarketOS are not developed by the manufacturers they are probably not required to comply- perrylibreinator@fe.disroot.orgSep 21, 2026, 3:02 PM@tris worst case scenario the manufacturers can prevent people from installing a different OS to comply with orders
- Tristris@chaos.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:56 PM
@libreinator Ah, that makes sense. In Android devices which has Google services, it is possible to remotely install apps. I guess Government would contact Google to do that
- perrylibreinator@fe.disroot.orgSep 21, 2026, 5:02 PM@tris AFAIK the union government has never went that route yet. That sounds creepy even for a fascist and deeply patriarchial country like India
edit: i was wrong about this. Google has uninstalled several apps from phones following government orders banning apps, the most famous being banning CamScanner and some others in 2020 or 2021