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what do you want him to do? to break the law?
lol, what? You mean the law in a handful of states and Brazil? Why should the entire world be affected by this?
I want him to do nothing.
He doesn't work for a distribution or a system integrator. He isn't the maintainer for systemd either. He's a random contributor, and he works for a cloud company that doesn't make or sell the sort of devices these laws apply to.
These age verification laws did not require Dylan Taylor to take any actions. He did that all on his own.
So, does the law require this doxxing and brigading harassment or is this something that you're doing for fun?
He did it under his real name. His Github username is his real name, with middle initial. He also links from said Github to his .com, which is also his real name. There is no doxxing here, nor is saying I wish someone hadn't done the thing they did harassment.
I won't defend the tone of the article though. I find the photoshopped mugshot and name-calling distasteful.
There's a difference between your information being publicly available and people taking your information and spreading it around amongst people that hate the person calling them a traitor and other shit.
It's stochastic terrorism, if they make 10,000 people hate the guy then the chances of somebody doing something to him goes up.
Get fucking real
You are dangerously naive if you don't understand how mobs work.
There's no need to follow an unjust law, nor a law that makes you an unethical person.
"Software not for distribution or use in California" (aka: "offer void in Nebraska") is a perfectly valid compliance, btw.
And if you comply with unjust laws, then it's way harder to challenge them in the courts.
There's also going the Ageless route and making protestware.
Yeah they seem to be absolutely fun.
Who is going to arrest/fine FOSS developers for not doing anything about that? Would Brazil and US states go after uuuh, the systemd developers? What about distros not using systemd, like Slackware. Who is ultimately responsible for a collaborative project? Are they gonna send the police after Torvalds?
Plus, other countries don't have this obligation.
All that dev had to do is nothing. Instead he chose to comply with something that was never asked.
And how exactly would that be breaking the law?
Systemd isn't an operating system provider and has no legal obligation to make any change.
The beauty of FOSS is that if people want, they can just fork it and keep what they don't like out