“To comply with the law all of it would have to shut down, globally, as the servers providing software and security updates can’t tell the difference between a web server, a Japanese software developer, a refrigerator and an EU teenager.”
Article 6 of chat control orders every “software application store” to verify whether each user is under 17 and block minors from installing messaging apps. Debian’s volunteer-run archive holds over 170,000 packages and has no idea who is downloading them. The drafters cited the Digital Markets Act definition for “virtual assistant” when they meant “software application store.” People who can’t get their own cross-references right want to rebuild the internet’s software supply chain around ID checks.