Other open source software gets similar treatment, with Colorado going as far as explicitly excluding code repositories and container platforms.

  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    There may have also been some big money lobbyists from companies like Google, Amazon, etc, that pointed out how much money it would have cost their poor shareholders to implement.

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      The entire dynamic is off somehow, so age verification is for the safety of children but won’t be implemented on some platforms for reasons that are by extension more pressing than child safety, as if such reasons might exist. It is almost like age verification is actually nothing to do with child safety.