Can someone tell this Dylan M. Taylor guy (who’s also in favor of Google’s locking down Android btw), that the code he’s pushing is unethical regardless of how private the implementation is?

kids can drown in the beach, you don’t age-gate the beach!!

besides, any form of personal information, ANY… is discriminatory

Edit: I know he’s going from repo to repo merging age verification code (Ubuntu, Arch, Systemd!!)

Also, speaking of Systemd (and Freedesktop and Flatpak btw), why the hell are they complying!!!

they’re NOT operating systems, they’re components, alone cannot be used in any meaningful way… I have a lot of theories, including conspiracy ones… but I’d like to hear yours

Of course it’s Lunduke

The source more succinct than the talking YouTube head, in this case. From the archinstall maintainer:

I appreciate the work ahead of time, and the law is the law. @svartkanin raised this PR internally within staff channels, and the feedback is that we’ll wait until there’s an overall stance from Arch Linux on this before merging this, and preferably involve legal representatives on this matter on what the best way forward is for us.

But from a personal reflection it’s clear that there’s a disconnect between law makers intent and how things like this will be implemented in reality, and once a law is in place - we might have to implement inconvenient things…

So I’ll leave this open for now, but I’ll also lock the conversation because experience from the mailing lists on this topic has told us this thread will get out of hand quickly.

@dylanmtaylor: this stance does not mean that we won’t merge this. And despite locking this thread, I think you, me and other contributors and maintainers can still comment (which is fine, and good).