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Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux (itsfoss.com)

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The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 10 points 10 hours ago

Good points. It's like websites with an age-gate: technically they're trying to keep out users under a certain age (usually minors), but there's no verification.

But we all need to remember that "protecting the children" and clutching our pearls is still not a good reason to let world governments and giant corporations create laws, demand our papers, keep massive databases of our data, and tie our real-world identities to our online ones. It would be the end of anonymity online, it will get hacked, and they will use it for evil...