bdonvr comments on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 12 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

What they've done, is in the user info field (which already has a ton of information that almost nobody ever fills out) they added a date of birth field. They do not control what it's used for, who's going to use it, or if the user will ever bother filling it out. Perhaps nobody will ever implement a use for it, it's really nothing.

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[+] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

What? It's like saying systemd is handing the government your info because they have a field for your real name and address.

YOU control what info goes there, if any. It mandates NOTHING.

You may as well be mad at vim because your text editor is capable of storing your birthdate if you go in and type it and save it to /public/myInfo.txt

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[+] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

This is pretty key. If they had added this field 8 years ago, absent any context of swarms of lawmakers salivating for personal info so they can find more children to fuck, or data to sell to their donors, then I wouldn't have thought much of it. The timing is absolutely a critical element of the discussion. Heck, wait until CA has repealed its law, and admitted in embarrassment it was a terrible implementation of child protection, and maybe I'd even be okay with adding the field.

Putting it in now is very much like the nazi standing at your door, holding a hand close to your knob, insisting "I'm not actually searching your house and breaking your 4th amendment rights! I'm just standing here, for no particular reason!"