It's FOSSA systemd fork has set out as a fu*k you to age verification.
https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-fork-strips-out-age-verification/
jxvvt@itsfoss the headline is misleading, systemd did not add age verificiation support: https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_473
Chris Goss@jxvvt Respectfully, that is incorrect. The latest PR to revert the addition of DOB field was blocked by Poettering and locked while he hides behind the corporate fig leaf of 'still deciding'. Still deciding, while the hated functionality is being added by his minions.
While on the subject, Canonical has a flurry of PR's merging compliance in advance with these surveillance laws whilst spokespersons from Canonical deny it's their devs and also hide behide the corporate fig leaf of 'still deciding' as the functionality is merged anyway.
It's quite clear the giant US defence contractor known as IBM/Redhat is leading and Canonical is capitulating .. as usual.
* Poettering is technically employed by M$ these days but he is deeply associated with IBM/Redhat.