MidnightBSD, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system, has quietly updated its README to reflect a new geographic restriction. The project has added a clause that bars residents of any country, state, or territory with OS-level age verification mandates from using MidnightBSD
Cutting services as opposed to complying is the better approach, since the other is a endorsement of it without consequences for regions putting it in place.
Things change for the worse overall even for those not subject to living in those regions when there’s no consequence to problematic decisions, and just shows those who enacted those changes can keep getting away with it.
Appeasement doesn’t tend to work out, and instead has a tendency to have the ideology of the troublesome region spread.
There is already the option of non compliance.