I credit Stallman with correctly being a zealot unwilling to give an inch on this topic for the last 30+ years. If he'd been the tiniest bit "realistic", we wouldn't have Linux or GNU coreutils or ad-free browsers.

Here's the deal: I paid for this computer, it is mine. I can make its logic gates do anything I want (back then there was no Internet so it couldn't reach out and hack/defraud someone else)

No matter what, it will be trivial to fork either Fedora installer or whatever to remove this. And because it's files that are freely given away, it's a lot harder to legally restrict than other consumer software.

No, age verification is not in inevitability. Neither is panopticon surveillance. We have the defensive shields.