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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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Argue against what is happening, not fictitious and hypothetical scenarios that are not happening.
We've had fields for storing way more personal information (like real name, home telephone number, location, etc) since 1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecos_field
There is nothing that a birthdate will tell about a person that their real name and location will not.
The criticism here needs to be aimed at the laws and politicians. This article is whipping up a lynch mob against a volunteer developer using a clickbait article for the purposes of ad revenue.