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otterleytoday at 2:03 AM1 replyview on HN

> No one is being convicted and doing hard time for refusing to add age verification to a Linux distro.

That's not the point. The point is that people who don't face a real possibility of being convicted and imprisoned are the ones who make the most noise about how they're willing to accept imprisonment (or, worse, are cheering on others to be imprisoned as some sort of Cyberpunk Martyr).

As I said elsewhere - it's easy to be an Internet Tough Guy when you (think you) have little to lose.


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soulofmischieftoday at 2:08 AM

This reads like your personal fantasy. It's also insulting to people who stand by these words all the way down the slippery slope. People who spend time trying to make the world safer for you and others.

Instead of positioning yourself adversarially and making unfounded and unwarranted claims about others, it would be more productive to engage in good faith and seek to lend a hand.

You've already made flat-out incorrect assumptions about me, indirect or not. Calibrate yourself.

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