There were some people practically tripping over themselves to add all the prerequisites needed to support age verification. Instead of waiting to see how things played out, they just rushed through changes for things like systemd.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Adding a nullable "date of birth" field on a json doesn't seem like "rushed". The whole thing was massively overblown, considering it already had a field for the user real name (also optional).

https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While I do like the idea of saving face, let me ask you this: when was the last time something as mundane as reality stopped a politician?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Ummm, more then you think. If it makes them look bad then yeah. In this case I don't think anyone (even the big players) where pumped about this law. If they could spin it as a win then yeah, reality be damned. But here I doubt they even got much of a rise from distros that don't sell their stuff anyways.