Google and Microsoft have to be dragged kicking and squealing into proper policy that actually damages their business models.

They have been completely silent on these age verification checks, in Aus this is being implemented by an un-elected government official whose career was largely working for Microsoft for the past 20 years.

This is all about data mining.

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Shit dawg all you had to say is citation needed.

Thornton, A., 2019. Gender equality in STEM is possible

Case in point, men and women are almost 50/50 in STEM careers around Eastern Europe due to the USSRs policies pushing more women into these careers.

People don’t realise that these norms they hold as dogma are so short-lived and subject to change that opposition only shows them unable to comprehend history past their lived experience.

It’s ashame they have to drag us down with them.

Shh

Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my ‘status’ when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.

Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!