I think maybe ‘you just don’t get’ how to support your position.

Maybe I’m just frustrated with the discussion. Plenty of other people have explained the position very eloquently, but it still falls on deaf ears.

By “these people”, I mean people who just don’t get it.

It’s like talking to a wall with these people.

Your real name and location data have been stored in UNIX/Linux for over 60 years.

IF you entered that info. And it wasn’t being used by applications to enable surveillance laws. It’s a false equivalency.

I think it’s blatantly obvious we weren’t born on January 1970, year 1. January only has 30 days, not 1970.

I’ll believe that if and when they actually force me to upload identification to prove that my birthday really is 1970-01-01 and my name really is Nunya Bissnis

It’ll be too late by that point. Way way way too late.

Contact your representative

Right, so that they can ask if I’m stoned or stupid for asking them to affect laws in another country?

It’s being added as a response to the age verification laws with the intended purpose to provide the age signal.

It’s age verification/attestation.

I was ambivalent about systemd up until now. If this gets merged I’m moving to a non-systemd distro. I do not live in California or even the USA. I do not want age verification garbage in my OS.

You had me at “no Node.js”