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Systemd adds age verification

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Systemd adds age verification

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userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd

Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...

Not to mention that they locked the unpopular pull request from reactions.

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That whatever happens the problem is always systemd. Chain of events:

voters vote for corrupt politician

big tech compaies bribe said politician to have shitty law

freedesktop requests systemd for backend to comply with said law

systemd just adds the field to the userdb

Who is to blame for all of this? Poettering who else…
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  subjectively, all of the above.
  
  Of course you’re seeing complaints about systemd in a discussion about systemd’s part in this.
  
  If you | go and look | at the other | conversations about | the same law in a non-systemd | context you’ll | see complaints there as well
  
  It’s like claiming no dry land exists when you’re swimming in the sea (within sight of the beach).