Mastodawn

The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.

@neil I think we've already gone that way with cars. It's difficult (impossible?) to buy one now that just belongs to you with mno ties to the manufacturer or seller.
Yet we all accept it.

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Neil Brown 10h ago

@mikecox This is indeed one of the reasons why I am struggling to replace my car at the moment, because I don't want to accept that.

I might not get what I want.

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Steve Bannister

@neil @mikecox I suspect it's going to be hard to disable too as the connection is, I assume, shared with the SOS systems.