Scott TibbsI posted this on Facebook in 2023:
"I am very close to becoming a single issue voter: If you support making pseudoephedrine prescription-only, you don't get my vote."
My position becomes much more militant when I have a sinus infection.
DavidA summary of the #GovernmentDecidesAct in short skit form.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zbpe--AZOeI
#papersPlease #computerKillswitch #nannyState #uspol #ParentsDecideAct
Printers aren't broken. They're controlled...
Open Water Otter VE7GR🏳️🌈Why do we have a so called #nannystate? I think it's primarily because people are stupid.
erstwhileSo @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...
xXcyberGRIMESxCYBERcrimesXxRE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116274356726829741
As well as an attack on children's right to self-determination. Stop trying to "Protect the children" and leave them the fuck alone.
Not that this has anything to do with protecting kids. The is plausible deniability for increasing the surveillance state while allowing them to continue to criticize China for theirs.
It is very likely we aren't going to be able to stop this. What we need to do at this point is educate those willing to learn and make sure they get as little and as incorrect data as we can. Teach your kids how to bypass this shit, and teach everyone who cares what data poisoning is.
#BigBrother #NannyState #DataPoisoning #Falsify #BlindThePanopticon #TheKidsAreAlright #LeaveTheKidsAlone
Richard R LeeThe utter folly of the #assisteddying debate and voting hysteria never seems to end in spite of us now living in a #ClimateApocalypse of our own making. Hundreds of millions with suffer aguishing deaths in the coming years, but I don’t expect the #NannyState to give a toss for any of them. This debate is about control, not about respect for an individuals choice to terminate their life. #WakeUp you fools! https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/17/scottish-parliament-votes-against-legalising-assisted-dying?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting
Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/opinion_os_verification/
RobA well written article on the subject of the far too broad upcoming age verification laws #Idiocracy #nannystate https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/opinion_os_verification/
Hacker NewsNanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/opinion_os_verification/
#HackerNews #NannyState #Linux #KidsID #Booting #TechNews #OpenSource
Big Blu GnuWhether it's loony progressives like RFK Jr. quarreling over meat and vaccines or both blue and red states distrusting well-meaning parents of transgender kids, one thing is for sure. The more I think about it, the more I realize that not even nannies agree on what's best for kids, or in this case citizens, and that is an argument against the nanny state.