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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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So they knew it was against the community and went right ahead?
There wouldn't be "this" thread if they had taken the community into consideration.
This isn't the gotcha you think it is. That "engineer" is ~~contributing~~ bullhorning this bullshit on multiple Linux based repositories.
The community is not against compliance, a loud minority is. The implementation is not where discussion needs to happen, as any software dev that had to implement shit they did not agree on, it rarely has a positive effect at this level
Blaming the victim, beautiful.