Mastodawn

So @Debian, @Fedora, are you going to protect non US users from blatant USA Domestic #RWNJ political OS age verification garbage, by insisting on removing rights limiting, content from your upstream sources like #Systemd before Debian or Fedora sources are published ??

Will you really proxy the seriously flawed American state legislators political interest by overriding wishes of *ALL* free OS users, globally not just those of affected US citizens?

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

This as we know, is the thin edge of the agenda for US State legislators (and their Corporate Money) to entrench surveillance and subsequent risk of coercive control of all OS end users, regardless of age or location.

Not withstanding the results will likely increase risk, or facilitate further the harm of your users already in compromised dictatorships around the world?

"Potent Mockery"
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2026/03/msg00018.html

#USA #FacileLaws #NannyState #Potent #ViciousMockery #StateChildAbuse #EFF #USpol #Enshitification

userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd

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. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...

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erstwhile 7h ago

It's nice to see we will retain some options going forward, well done #MidnightBSD

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Justin Crozer 7h ago

@erstwhile will be interesting to see how this age verification crap is implemented in Linux it can simply be not installed as a package and just change the regional location 😂

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erstwhile 6h ago

@justincrozer .. the corporate pacifiers over at #Systemd are working on that right now.. "pathway to compliance" my ass.. if they honestly push that corporate BS barrow, they've already been found lacking, and clearly don't care. I don't expect the #Fedora muppets to do anything remotely that upsets their wealthy #IBM masters, as evidenced by the #CentOS debacle.

There is some hope that #Debian blocks adoption of this shit from upstream. If those Jurisdictions don't like it, they can fork off and roll their own debian based #SurveillanceState distro, or just use #Ubuntu .. and leave the rest of us the fuck alone ... and free from #US knob jockey politician interference and risks, that we did not elect or ask for.

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erstwhile

... geeze, the guy who upped the Systemd #PR has had personal attack poured on, from all directions, poor sod. #AdHominem shit, from low intellect clowns who resemble #ICE mentality 🤬

It's clear that #CivilDisobedience and or #Resistance takes a measure of intelligence, that they clearly have little to none of. They should ask #Minnesota residents how it's done.

It is a much more useful thing to pour vocal derision on the political bullshit, that demands these changes from afar. Vote against it if in that jurisdiction, throw stones of fact at their #Political glass houses, if outside. Go vote with your install USB

#AgentPottering's crowd are just the anointed tool of #IBM, #Microsoft #Meta who pay politicians to call for this, & pay to stack #FOSS boards, with 'Employees', like the CentOS debacle. Scare one off, another is paid.

Vocally demand protection from crap corpo code, from the distro 'Executive Bodies' as it's they who approve PR's, it is at their discretion alone.