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Nope. It only needs one maintainer to do the PR
You know what will discourage Them more? Id verification
Give me your Id. Seriously, go and give me your ID with nothing blurred.
My age is 26.
That's not what they asked
I also want to see your passport and your original birth certificate
Yes, I know. I answered the question that reasonably follows from the context. Not their loaded question that assumes something which was not in the pull request.
I know a lot of people like to use the slippery slope fallacy here but even if that applies, you should limit your resistance to points where you actually have a leg to stand on. It's not like the government would find it much harder to jump straight to age verification without this age indication step. Going all-in now just does all manner of a disservice to the cause of digital privacy.
We'll deal with that when it happens. Not fighting against an imagined threat by using the slippery slope fallacy.
Start by fighting the New York one.
You are right that it was a loaded question, and you had a smart answer, but the implication of this "inconsequential" change represented by the current birthdate is of course more invasive identification later.
Otherwise why would they bother, because as it is now it is useless or inconsequential.
The leading theory is that this is to help companies in California comply with the child online privacy laws.
Ah, another smart answer.
Wrong. That is all that is asked in the Californian legislation.