So @Debian, @Fedora, are you going to protect non US users from blatant USA Domestic #RWNJ political OS age verification garbage, by insisting on removing rights limiting, content from your upstream sources like #Systemd before Debian or Fedora sources are published ??
Will you really proxy the seriously flawed American state legislators political interest by overriding wishes of *ALL* free OS users, globally not just those of affected US citizens?
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
This as we know, is the thin edge of the agenda for US State legislators (and their Corporate Money) to entrench surveillance and subsequent risk of coercive control of all OS end users, regardless of age or location.
Not withstanding the results will likely increase risk, or facilitate further the harm of your users already in compromised dictatorships around the world?
"Potent Mockery"
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2026/03/msg00018.html
#USA #FacileLaws #NannyState #Potent #ViciousMockery #StateChildAbuse #EFF #USpol #Enshitification

userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd
Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...