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Well yes, but actually no. The US version at least, if bill HR 8250 and its Senatorial equivalent pass, would mandate age verification (i.e. ID verification, not just attestation) at the OS level, presumably shareable with every app and website through some API. This would effectively de-anonymize the Internet for US users.
Whether the bill will pass, not clear. It has bipartisan sponsorship, and like KOSA and numerous other such bills it will probably gather wide bipartisan support despite being very unpopular with the public. KOSA did fail to pass... But now it's been resurrected too, and it has support even from some officials who are normally against such surveillance and censorship measures. And there is no question that it would be signed into law if passed, and probably deemed legal by the Supreme Court as well.
The upshot is that for people in the US, it would allow them to be surveilled online much more easily regardless of their choice of websites or OS platforms. Circumvention wouldn't be impossible (people routinely bypass China's Great Firewall, of course it can be done) but the bar would be considerably higher for most users.
Edit: as far as the European version, pwned is pwned. If a mandatory app is easily hackable, then you can be spied on through it whether you are using Farcebook or Webring.
Elyon: "Antiracist is just a codeword for antiwhite," I see. Never mind then.
greenjeans, Altoid: you can be apolitical, or you can kvetch about "DEI Nazis" and antiracism being anti-white, which are political positions. People don't get to spout politics and claim they're apolitical, not even if their position is "both sides are bad" (i.e. centrism, also a kind of politics).
"DEI Nazis"
Mate, IDK about you, but I am living in a country where the anti DEI crowd are in power and trying to outlaw my existence. In case you haven't been paying attention, the mainstreaming of ID verification and de-anonymization of the Internet are part of that. "We have to protect kids" as a cover to censor and surveil the Internet while protecting the Epstein class, "We have to fight terrorism" as a cover for cracking down on protest and dissent - these are the tools of the same elite who fearmonger about gay people and immigrants, and also the same elite who claim nothing is wrong with paying more than half your income into rent. Your anger is justified, but your enemies are the same as mine, and they are playing you like a fiddle.
Take a look at Collective Shout, the group from Australia who got Steam and Itch.io to pull all adult games. They call themselves feminists, but they're founded by a Christian anti-abortion activist.
As far as Xlibre. The problem here is that the author has been a bigoted piece of shit towards other developers. I don't think the Arch maintainers' approach here was smart or correct, but it's reasonable to at least ban such software from the repos and leave it to the AUR. Similar has happened before, e.g. check out the history of bs1770gain getting pulled from Termux due to the maintainer being a literal Nazi - not a "DEI Nazi", an actual white supremacist Hitler-apologist Nazi.
My cynical side says that's the point. As with end to end encryption, everyone must be pwnable at the hands of the state.
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