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I might have a lot of fun things that aren't legal in California. Never thought my OS would be one, but here we are.
If people went out of their way to learn a damn thing about computers, and all-consuming jobs didn't force entire generations raised without parents, and maybe they didn't let their 6 year olds on social media / online gaming / whatever unsupervised, maybe there'd be more backlash to the state and corporations trying to step in as parental figures.
...Wish that wasn't too friggin' much to ask.
Servers and data centers have zero business knowing anything about who's behind my machine by default.