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systemd-censord.

*Slow clap*

From: FloofyWolf
Recently, a proposal has been made to implement an API for a new California censorship regulation, "On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states" by Aaron Rainbolt. I believe the approach outlined to be very short-sighted, in that creating a bespoke API for each of the hundreds of government censorship requirements that debian will presumably now be following...
https://jwz.org/b/yk41

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Chan Secodina 9h ago

@jwz I want to fork and maintain a Linux distro approximately as much as I want to learn how to do my own dentistry at home using only supplies I can find in my junk drawer, and yet *here we are.* I'm going to hold out hope for now that Debian does the right thing here and rejects censorship (as it has done for the last 27 years I've been using it).

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