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Surveillance creep is once again striking in the age verification debate. This is happening at the FCC this time.

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[–] MinFapper@startrek.website 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're shooting the messenger. Meta and others are lobbying governments hard for this. They're the ones causing you to lose your privacy. Not the volunteers that maintain systemd.

[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then those volunteers can refuse. But they won’t, because they agree with this direction.

It’s plain as day. You’ll agree with me in a few years.

[–] MinFapper@startrek.website 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And you can go contact your local/state/federal government representatives (I mean actually call, or go to town halls). But you won't, because hating on systemd is more important to you than your privacy.

It's as plain as day. You'll agree with me in a few years.

[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lmfao, you think contacting reps is a thing that works in 2026? You must be over 60, right? With no clue where the world is going… or, you LOVE where the world is going… that’s probably more accurate.

[–] MinFapper@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, it's pretty clear that you're the one that LOVES where the world is going. You have zero interest in changing where things are going, you just want the satisfaction of saying "I told you so".

Well, guess what. Everyone else already knows everything you do. The volunteers are systemd aren't going go to jail for you. They haven't implemented age verification yet (no, an optional field in a schema is nothing close to verification) because they haven't been forced to yet. If laws pass such that they have to add it or go to jail, yes they'll implement it.

And when that happens, it will be because people like you took the effort to divide us instead of presenting a unified front against the corporations that are lobbying to take away our privacy.

But you won't care about the last part, because you'll be feeling too smug from "calling it".

[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 1 points 2 days ago