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Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support (itsfoss.com)
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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

You do know that this is a slippery slope argument, right?

You would have to demonstrate that there is an intention there to require third party services to validate the age of users using Linux... Or that there is an intention to do so by systemd and the broader open source developers.

I don't think it will be easily possible to lock out every Linux system from the internet that doesn't implement some kind of hardware DRM mechanism to make sure that the user cannot just change the date of birth with root permissions.