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Re:System76 on Age Verification Laws by hellojesus on Friday March 06, 2026 @09:39AM (#47275434)
> First, it standardizes parental controls, which ought to be so easy to use that failure to do so is nearly always a proactive decision on the part of the guardian.

If this mattered to the market, don't you think a company would have implemented it or would have been built to fill the need?

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Re:System76 on Age Verification Laws by idle_zealot on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:43PM (#47281477)
1. No, I don't think that the market does what people want. That's not the primary reward signal.

2. I'm making an ought statement of values, like "we ought not pollute rivers." I don't really care what any system of resource allocation has to say about that.

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