OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability?
#accessibility #disability #linux #FreeSoftware #fascism #AgeVerification #infantilism
@iaruffell I saw this thread go by, suggesting as several others in this thread did, that it is mostly a specific entity in the ecosystem.
systemd has always been a lever of power; there’s no other reason to create an ecosystem of its shape. the person who grasps that lever is Lennart Poettering, and it always has been. I don’t need to write much on this; I watched the “oh shit” moment last week when systemd started accepting slop code, and again when an age verification mechanism was imposed on every systemd user and distro on Poettering’s final word. this was always the social structure on offer, enforced by a rigid ecosystem. 3/
If so, what are the contingencies? Are there any major distros prepared to abandon systemd? I am so old that it still seems new-fangled to me, anyway!
But my comparison with accessibility still holds.
@iaruffell I mean, I have not been much of a linux user so I definitely can't speak for any major distros.
I think the people involved prefer increasing marginilization to reducing it.
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