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by curt15 97 days ago
In fact, he is trying to pave the road for these "age verification" laws in multiple projects:

- https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290

- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request...

- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1...

- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1... -

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HOLY CRAP. THATS AMAZING.

This isn't just some guy that's overzealous.

Apparently this has escalated: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1rz8i4r/dylan_usef...

Theres a lot of smoke here.

Off his rocker: https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1...

> This is honestly some of the dumbest false equivalence I've ever read. Entering a birth date (that doesn't even have a check for truthfulness) during account setup when the system is first installed equals returning escaped slaves or turning in jews? I'm actually baffled by this comparison. And no, I don't particularly care about North Korean laws.