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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

not fringe loonies, big business, Meta and Palantir (and others) are financially pushing for it.
I hope they're serious about this. Start suing people in California who post screenshots of MidnightBSD for piracy.
They publicly map the free speech of the USA!

https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-to-track-hate/heat-map

I guess free speech is age-restricted now. :)

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.
Is this an effective CTA?

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 is a huge problem. I won't use an operating system that comes with SpyID. I also could not care any less what any fake-rationale a government uses to spy on the people - it is simple illegal.

Then again, not so many use MidnightBSD, so ... not so many affected, right?