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Agreed. To elaborate:
Sure, the developer is a bit of a Judas for complying in advance, but our anger should be aimed at the people with power and reach promoting these laws in the political sphere (the metaphorical Pharisees).
To those saying "it's just a field", please consider that the timing is a more significant statement than the addition of the field itself. Why now? If you don't support fascism, don't build the frameworks that support it and don't let fascists use YOUR platforms or software to make THEIR point, make them fork it and let them fail. I don't think many members of the senate or house would be capable of adding this themselves. I'd be surprised if they could code hello world in TI-83 BASIC. If they ask you to do it, stub your toe and call in sick. Make it really shitty. Leave in a bunch of bugs that crash the program then blame the age attestation feature to turn users against it. Use copywrited code that they'll have to remove later due to license incompatibilities. Report your boss to HR for every indiscretion that you might have normally overlooked. Or do nothing; that's still better than complying in advance.
We have to break the narrative that this is inevitable. There's enough of us, with concentrated enough knowledge and influence (aka, you folks are a bunch if nerds and I love it!), that if we collectively stop, the whole train stops or derails.