Some of you need to watch this video, and hang your head in shame.
Dylan Taylor has been receiving constant harassment, including threats to his life and safety, for actions done collectively by SystemD. The article by Sam Bent was explictly mentioned as part of the harassment campaign, and rightfully so.
I don’t think enough people realize that this is catastrophically bad. It’ll discourage people from becoming open source developers, it’ll discourage people from using Linux, and it’ll discourage legislators from taking the Linux community seriously.
If you ever wished ill upon another human being for complying with a relatively inconsequential law, you are better off never touching a computer again. The Linux community has collectively gone so far beyond what is acceptable here.
You realise some applications have a mix of content right?
Right so mixed content steam already has parental controls specifically with an allow list
GOG provides individually installed games, so you can control its access with
guidContent players pretty much all have child accounts
Even locally hosted ones, like Plex already have parental controls built-in (mostly via allow lists)
What other kinds of mixed content applications are there that already do not have some kind of parental controls implemented which are likely to actually make use of this?
I am honestly struggling to find specific examples of the types of applications which have mixed content, don’t have parental controls or at least allow lists built in and are likely to actually implement this change. Again you are relying on developers to actually make use of this field, and outside of corporate applications (which imo are already likely to have some kind of content controls), I am struggling here to see why an indie developer would bother?