@gianmarcogg03 @BrodieOnLinux naive take. Politicians don’t care about votes anymore. It’s lobbyist money that buys their seats.

Speaking on systemd specifically, there is absolutely nothing compelling systemd to do what they did. They are not an Operating System provider. Poettering does not live in California (or even America). This preemptive compliance. The way in which systemd has acted as a project is disgusting (smacking down and censoring opposition, refusing to even discuss it with the wider user base).

@ret @BrodieOnLinux what would you do then? Publicly protest? Burn the politicians' houses?

systemd is only providing a generalized way to store the user's age (which can be used for other things as well) that integrates with the already existing userdb functionality.

Also, they are not censoring anything, the PR comments are not the proper place to discuss (or rather complain the same way without adding anything new to the table) age verification, Poettering said so at 14:33 in the video.

@gianmarcogg03 @ret @BrodieOnLinux oh come on stop it with this sandboxing bullshit.

Are sandboxable SERVICES that are run from other contexts... nginx, redis, nextcloud server and things like that => on a laptop or desktop this is pure nonsense.
You don't sandbox firefox, thunderbird, google chrome... which are the real problem because these will be required to share the information with online services... the time to look right and left it will be on you.