You guys fell for memebait

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.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

Can i not use age verification in systemd if i dont live in usa?
You can even not use it if you live in the US. There’s nothing that enforces you put a date in there (and nothing to verify if it’s correct, which is why people say it’s not age verification).
For now. Let’s not pretend this doesn’t lay groundwork for goverment to require id verification.
were we not dealing with fascism i would not mind this, i’d think it was just part of a functional digital ID environment. that’s part of the problem.
Sure, but the slippery slope fallacy is still a fallacy. If it suddenly does become required, fork the thing. Or better yet: focus your attention on the shitty lawmakers who are pushing for this.
Sure, I dont have a problem with them following the law, all the blame falls squarely on the law makers. That being said I dont think it’s wrong to call out where I believe this is intended to lead. If you waste your time defending stupid regulations we’ll only be divided when it gets worse.