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"The law", what law? Why should my computer in fucking Canada ask for age verification?
Because big tech and the us government want to complete the panopticon and the people queued up to approve his change worked at MSFT?
This shit needs to be stopped cold. Mark Zuckerberg doesn't get to buy control of Linux just because he bought control of Gavin Newsom.
Even if systemd is managed by someone outside of Cali that does not automatically except them from all Cali laws. When a person decides to distribute software that comes with the legal responsibility of the locations where the software is distributed.
Why does your computer need to ask for your full name or office location? You don't have any issues with those fields? Or is it because you understand that those are optional just like this field is?
If you don't want to put your bday in then don't. fork the software and remove what you don't want. That is the great thing about open-source.
If you don't trust the maintainer of systemd then why are you using their software in the first place?
You are right it is obvious that zuck wants to hoover up as much data as possible. But what if, instead of this being a data gathering ploy (since the law forbids the data to be used for anything else), this is them trying to put the responsibility of controlling what children look at online onto the parents?
While I don't think that FB should be held resonsible for all the ways they fucked up the youth, I also think that the parents are to blame as well.
Hilarious that you think that the law affects how the us government behaves.