The age verification is a blatant lie. It was always about ID verification and tracking.

Marketing companies want to ID bots and collect real marketing data to sell for advertising. Governments want to track citizens and isolate any dissidents and nonconformists as well as track spending and therefore collect more tax revenue.

Don’t let these clowns off the hook for rushing to put this into systemd and major distros.

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

Huge win. Skeptical this will spread but would be great to see wider adoption.

If that makes it through, that’s unexpected but welcome news. Hopefully the other governments looking to enact this (foolish) legislation will follow.