systemd-censord.
*Slow clap*
From: FloofyWolf
Recently, a proposal has been made to implement an API for a new California censorship regulation, "On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states" by Aaron Rainbolt. I believe the approach outlined to be very short-sighted, in that creating a bespoke API for each of the hundreds of government censorship requirements that debian will presumably now be following...
jwz.org/b/yk41
jwz: systemd-censord
*Slow clap* On the need for a censorship API for legal compliance reasons in some countries and U.S. states: From: FloofyWolf Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 20:38:08 -0800. To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org. Cc: xdg@lists.jwz.org
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in reply to jwz • • •its fucking sad that folks jump so quickly to comply with this shit, when the more metal approach is to say 'fuckit, we're gonna run a rebel os'. ratmOS even.
id rock ratmOS. im sure it would ditch systemd
Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
in reply to jwz • • •Salem's Lot
in reply to jwz • • •Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲
in reply to Salem's Lot • • •@SalemsLot Hahahaha. Seriously? You decided to use a distribution made by Big Tech containing tons of anti-freedom software (including Snap, based 100% on Canonical's commercial, proprietary, corporate-controlled, monolithic "app store"), and now you want to get rid of it because its upstream added an optional field to a JSON file 🤣😂🤦🤦🤦.
Ooooh, this world is such a circus.
#Linux #systemd #ageverification
Salem's Lot
in reply to Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲 • • •iobear
in reply to Salem's Lot • • •jwz
in reply to iobear • • •@iobear @SalemsLot @nik No, they do not have to "solve" it by which you apparently mean "capitulate to fascists".
"Get fucked, you surveilling fucks" is the only appropriate and acceptable response.
Bruce Elrick
in reply to jwz • • •BoredomFestival
in reply to jwz • • •ABrockwell
in reply to jwz • • •Given the ridiculously stupid things happening in the world now, I had this sinking feeling that it would be for real. But after reading FloofyWolf's full post, I'm fairly certain it is satirical.
(See lists.debian.org/debian-legal/… )
For me #Linux is the last bastion of computing freedom, now that MS and Apple appear to have become largely just #enshittified marketing/surveillance/fee-charging engines. I can certainly imagine a future where Linux (of all flavors) is under all-out assault from the tech-bros.
On the need for a censorship API for legal compliance reasons in some countries and U.S. states
lists.debian.orgGradientDescent
in reply to jwz • • •for anyone wondering if this is satire, read the last few lines of the post in the link. It is absolutely dripping with sarcasm.
That's said there was a very real merge request for systemd to undo the damage they've already done by implementing age verification. That merge was recently denied (they're leaving age verification in).
mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1162…
nixCraft 🐧 (@nixCraft@mastodon.social)
nixCraft 🐧 (Mastodon)jwz
in reply to GradientDescent • • •Ageless Linux — Distro Compliance Tracker
agelesslinux.orgGradientDescent
in reply to jwz • • •Eggs now in different baskets.
in reply to jwz • • •That "el" person on IRC
in reply to jwz • • •Lily
in reply to jwz • • •Ironbeagle 🇨🇦
in reply to jwz • • •excellent read. I especially love this part:
"a unit for Florida will ban all packages with “trans” in the name”
#SystemD #linux #Censorship