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The reports of age verification in Linux are greatly exaggerated, for now (www.osnews.com)
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[–] FishFace@piefed.social -5 points 4 hours ago

Because the hive mind has determined that age verification is bad, so anything linked to it is also bad. We don't need to critically assess whether optional age fields are harmful themselves; we have all the information necessary in its relation to another thing that's bad so we can save ourselves some thinking and just yell.