Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support

• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What? It’s like saying systemd is handing the government your info because they have a field for your real name and address.

  YOU control what info goes there, if any. It mandates NOTHING.

  You may as well be mad at vim because you text editor is capable of storing your birthdate if you go in and type it and save it to /public/myInfo.txt

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Context matters. Systemd did this as a reaction to frankly insane laws. They didn’t have to do anything like this, yet they did and comparing this to changing and creating files manually in vim misses the point entirely. Intentionally doing something is very different from a feature being natively present.

    YOU control what info goes there, if any. It mandates NOTHING.

    Until closed source or even open source programs demand an ID verified age from the OS. When that happens you are forced to unmask yourself and the systemd shit is the first step to making such an API possible. It normalizes genuinely insane demands that add nothing for the users except compliance.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is pretty key. If they had added this field 8 years ago, absent any context of swarms of lawmakers salivating for personal info so they can find more children to fuck, or data to sell to their donors, then I wouldn’t have thought much of it. The timing is absolutely a critical element of the discussion. Heck, wait until CA has repealed its law, and admitted in embarrassment it was a terrible implementation of child protection, and maybe I’d even be okay with adding the field.

      Putting it in now is very much like the nazi standing at your door, holding a hand close to your knob, insisting “I’m not actually searching your house and breaking your 4th amendment rights! I’m just standing here, for no particular reason!”

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      • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You said it better than I could

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