No. It shouldn’t be part of the OS at all. It should be a third party package that one can choose to then add the repo or download the package, and manually install. And then click that you agree you want age tracking before it actually installs. It’s should be very manual and opt in only, and never installed by default. That way those that wish to can have it, and no one else need comply in advance to fascism. Opt out is an awful plan. You know that. You’re just trolling or are for a deeper police state.

He didn’t comply, he collaborated. It won’t deter anyone but pro fascist programmers from developing for Linux. Your defence of the indefensible says a lot about you, too.

The option is not supposed to be there at all. Don’t comply with ANY part of it, especially in advance.

Well, I’m not in a lynch mob. So there’s that.

That is not the point and you know it.

Not true. Because the stated purpose of the laws at play is to enable that to be queried so that sites can decide what is appropriate for you to see.

Your argument is an informal fallacy called Whataboutism.

I invite you to educate yourself by reading about it on Wikipedia

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