I actually like this idea. It provides more girth for when I make pro-Google threads on Lemmy, set notifications to vibrate and shove the phone in my asshole.
I think your question comes from thinking that anybody involved in this grift cares about anything other than short-term results. They would sell both their own kidneys as long as they only had to deliver after the next quarterly earnings report.
Conservative lawmakers don't know anything about porn, because if they ever recorded themselves fucking and the recording got out, they'd go to jail for statutory rape.
They're generally very comfortable around Grindr though.
By creating a plaintext dotfile in $HOME, I'd reckon. Minimum effort, gets the job done. Users can lie when setting up the account so protecting the file against tampering is pointless.
But more likely, not a single distro will implement anything by default because it doesn't make sense to change your internationally-distributed OS because one state in one country passed a stupid law.
I apologize in advance for how pedantic this comment will be but "half the US now requires" obviously refers to half the administrative units (states in this case, could be counties or municipalites etc) while "half the US is required" would refer to the population, so technically the post title is not wrong because of the population distribution.
I'm going to wash my hands now so that my fingers forget they typed this.
Oh, so you want to treat people as a monolithic group but don't want to be treated as part of a monolithic group? Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, you hypocrite.
You know what? You are right. That Wikipedia article was a fascinating read. I recant my previous statements uniquivocally, sincerely and unironically.
Thank you for the humbling lesson on what it's like to be on the left side of the Dunning-Krueger curve. I'm an ignorant fuck.
For context, this is the son who called Bolsonaro Senior an "ungrateful son of a whore" in a leaked audio he had sent to Bolsonaro Senior.