Post #2351227
2026-03-21 02:30 UTC
@InkomTech@infosec.exchange ok i'll try to clarify, since i don't think your quite understand my position....
THESIS: I am fundamentally ideologically opposed to legislating age verification into operating systems, for all the obvious fucked up dystopian outcomes that inevitably leads to. Maybe I should have put that in all caps or something because people really seem to want to misrepresent my position.
ANTITHESIS: Should age verification legislation get passed, we should not throw our distro maintainers and middleware implementers under the bus by getting mad at them for following the law (i mean unless they come out and say they actually think the legislation is good, in that case fuck em).
SYNTHESIS: we can oppose age verification laws without going after implementers for trying to avoid exposing themselves to fines. it's a rock and a hard place for distro devs and im kinda shocked that people seem to unwilling to acknowledge that reality.
Thanks for the condescending comments (and extremely weird call out of Jane??), i hope your irc buddies got a kick out of it(???)
i predict you either don't respond or hit me with an ad hominem, prove me wrong!
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@InkomTech@infosec.exchange 2026-03-28 13:17
@cas@social.treehouse.systems you sprinted to an objectionable synthesis. Jurisdictionally, disregard distant places with unreasonable laws. Challenge on basis of undefined defendant when an amalgam of FOSS code with countless contributors across countless jurisdictions LACKS a function. Demand judicial clarification on the premise. Seek contradictory mandates in sympathetic jurisdictions. Raise the challenge, dammit. Condescension implies false sense of a high ground. I’m saying we’ve spent decades on these issues; don’t undo that by sprinting to a concession.