The author is not from the places where he claims that these are laws. The Californian law is not in effect.

Dylan M. Taylor's GH profile claims that he's from Durham, NC (which does not have this law). He also references to a draft to xdg-desktop-portal which has not been accepted. (Add parental controls to the Accounts portal: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922)

I'm asking:

- What is this guy's personal interest in pushing this through? (It seems non-neccessary and is questionable at what the end goal)

- Who's political agenda is he sponsoring for this?

- Is he getting financially incentivized to do this?

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curt15 3 days ago | parent [-]

In fact, he is trying to pave the road for these "age verification" laws in multiple projects:

- https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290

- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request...

- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1...

- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1... -

	▲	monksy 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		HOLY CRAP. THATS AMAZING. This isn't just some guy that's overzealous. Apparently this has escalated: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1rz8i4r/dylan_usef... Theres a lot of smoke here. Off his rocker: https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1... > This is honestly some of the dumbest false equivalence I've ever read. Entering a birth date (that doesn't even have a check for truthfulness) during account setup when the system is first installed equals returning escaped slaves or turning in jews? I'm actually baffled by this comparison. And no, I don't particularly care about North Korean laws.