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Age Verification is Now Mutating into General ID (www.freezenet.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I’m blaming the PEOPLE who say “no biggie, just a number” who can’t seem to get it through their thick, dumb, argumentative skulls that these kind of things ALWAYS AND WITHOUT EXCEPTION lead to loss of privacy and more authoritarian laws.

There’s a big picture. Stop arguing the tiny points with me and SEE IT.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Stop arguing the tiny points with me and SEE IT.

    i agree, that’s why i think talking about systemd here (and arguing wether they want to implement this or not) is a massive distraction

    anyways i’m gonna practice what i preach and stop talking about systemd now, enough bytes of online traffic have been spent on this

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    You're shooting the messenger. Meta and others are lobbying governments hard for this. They're the ones causing you to lose your privacy. Not the volunteers that maintain systemd.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    Then those volunteers can refuse. But they won’t, because they agree with this direction.

    It’s plain as day. You’ll agree with me in a few years.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (3 children)

    And you can go contact your local/state/federal government representatives (I mean actually call, or go to town halls). But you won't, because hating on systemd is more important to you than your privacy.

    It's as plain as day. You'll agree with me in a few years.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Lmfao, you think contacting reps is a thing that works in 2026? You must be over 60, right? With no clue where the world is going… or, you LOVE where the world is going… that’s probably more accurate.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    No, it's pretty clear that you're the one that LOVES where the world is going. You have zero interest in changing where things are going, you just want the satisfaction of saying "I told you so".

    Well, guess what. Everyone else already knows everything you do. The volunteers are systemd aren't going go to jail for you. They haven't implemented age verification yet (no, an optional field in a schema is nothing close to verification) because they haven't been forced to yet. If laws pass such that they have to add it or go to jail, yes they'll implement it.

    And when that happens, it will be because people like you took the effort to divide us instead of presenting a unified front against the corporations that are lobbying to take away our privacy.

    But you won't care about the last part, because you'll be feeling too smug from "calling it".

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