THAT law and it's copies here and abroad
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THAT law and it's copies here and abroad

Per the very first reply on their thread discussing it in their forums, which I linked directly to for the post title:

We’ll NEVER require any verification or identification from the user.

However, what’s gonna happen should the attempts to age-gate the XDG portal screw over alt-init distros like Artix too? My guess is maybe they start blocking regions which force age gating like Arch Linux 32 is doing.

  • FauxLiving
    2·
    16 hours ago

    I’ve been slippery sloped already in one of these conversation threads.

    • Rioting Pacifist
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Oh they passed a law that doesn’t require age verification?

      But what if they passed it as a pretext to pass a different law later to kill your nan.

      It’s disappointing to see the lack of good conversation around this isn’t due to tool limitations or reddit being terribly moderated, but rather there are a lot of people who genuinely just want to invent stuff to get mad about and if you point out that isn’t what’s happening they’ll just yell slippery nipples the sky is falling!!! Over and over.

      Whatever happened to the EU meme law that was widely misinterpreted on reddit as the end of the world, I guess nothing.

      • FauxLiving
        2·
        14 hours ago

        But what if they passed it as a pretext to pass a different law later to kill your nan.

        Hot takes and creative fiction is more entertaining than boring reality and that behavior is enforced by social media systems (like likes). It isn’t fun to read ‘they passed a law that’s largely symbolic’ as ‘The end of the Internet is upon us’.

        It’s disappointing to see the lack of good conversation around this isn’t due to tool limitations or reddit being terribly moderated, but rather there are a lot of people who genuinely just want to invent stuff to get mad about and if you point out that isn’t what’s happening they’ll just yell slippery nipples the sky is falling!!! Over and over.

        Outrage and self-righteousness feel good and appearing cynical is a cheap way to look intelligent.

        Alternatively, something like half of social media traffic was shown to be bot-sourced and a goal of adversarial influence campaigns is often to simply stir up conflict so I keep my sanity by believing that a good portion of them are not actual human people, just evil LLMs trying to piss everyone off (and a lot of the rest are simply people who’ve been fooled by the false consensus into aping those same bot tactics and/or literal children)

        Some topics, like discussions around AI, are so heavily toxic that I find it hard to believe that it isn’t being signal boosted in some way.