If you can feel a very small tinge of existential horror when you read the words “try to”, congratulations, you’re a true *nix devotee.

If legislators get grumpy about this, just gently thwap them with your handy copy of The Unix Haters Handbook and tell them you’re working as hard as you can under the circumstances.

  • raicon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Age verification is just paving way for things a lot worse: globally unique identification.

    They ( politicians ) will weaponize the inefficiencies in this implementation to push for an online verification later on.

    And of course Peter Thiel will be somewhere in the middle

  • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Or you can just refuse to operate there, if enough developers do that It’ll force them scrap it.

      • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        So? If Linux refuses to operate there it’ll affect the government directly, I’m sure they have various servers that need to keep running and changing to another OS will take too much time and money. Plus this is a statement showing that the open source community won’t comply with what one government wants