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This age verification stuff is insane. Fringe loonies have too much power.
Think of the children!! spends time thinking of children having fun learning BSD
What types of negative side-effects would there be from an “open source” application that was free, open, and restricted entirely by license? Rather than “we make no warranty” the license says “you may not use”.
I’ve also had a few products I’ve released on GitHub as public but never assigned a license, which probably means they are proprietary, unless GitHub TOS says otherwise.
I realize each of these is a unique situation.
This age verification stuff is insane. Fringe loonies have too much power.
Then again, not so many use MidnightBSD, so ... not so many affected, right?
This age verification stuff is insane. Fringe loonies have too much power.
I suppose it has to do with saving their asses? We probably have to thank the Government for this, too. In any case, it is indeed crazy. If I were to live by this >10 years ago I would not know anything about Linux or BSDs. Or programming for that matter.
I genuinely don't know why these small niche software projects are even bothering to address this. Literally no one cares.
It’s a liability for them. They’re a small project and someone who just hates open source community projects can sue them out of existence for non-compliance.
They publicly map the free speech of the USA! https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-to-track-hate/heat-map
If I were a kid, I would reject those attempts to age-gate restrict me. I actually wonder if that age-spying is in violation of free speech. Does free speech not hold valid for younger people? They are getting restricted here. I don't see how that is fair to them.
I genuinely don't know why these small niche software projects are even bothering to address this. Literally no one cares.
It’s a liability for them. They’re a small project and someone who just hates open source community projects can sue them out of existence for non-compliance.
This age verification stuff is insane. Fringe loonies have too much power.
not fringe loonies, big business, Meta and Palantir (and others) are financially pushing for it.
Now... it just so happens that the loonies and big business are connected another way. Despite not much liking each other, they share a political party to advance each other's goals. Only a relatively small fraction of the country really wants to eliminate porn (which is the real goal), but they have enough allies who are willing to tolerate it to make a majority (or near-majority).
Which enables big business to get everything else that they want.
This age verification stuff is insane. Fringe loonies have too much power.
not fringe loonies, big business, Meta and Palantir (and others) are financially pushing for it.
They make up a tiny tiny tiny portion of the human population and whatever nation state they claim to originate from