I read the headline and my immediate thought was "is this controlled for socioeconomic class?"

I guess I'm reading the paper

J.K. Rowling's anti-trans rhetoric and activism has enough influence to lead directly or otherwise to the further persecution and discrimination against an already marginalised minority group.

She at some point opted for or was identified by those with similar views as the term TERF, a 'trans-exclusionary radical feminist' (the acronym is arguably problematic). The queer community and queer allies use the term with a implied derogatory connotation. A number of TERFs who picked up on this connotation now believe that it is an insult, and do not wish to be labelled as such (despite TERFs coining the term themseIves).

First case; you cannot counter (in practice i.e. having an effect) the intolerant philosophies seen on these instances using rational argument as they do not appeal to rational thought. And because of this, not despite it, public opinion allows inhumane indignities to be acted upon marginalised demographics.

Is this any better than Aegis?

This is a whataboutist counterpoint at best. Universities and their researchers are not a monolith.

A very interesting and crazy proposition, but I think you're asking the wrong question. There are definitely ways of removing distractions from your environment without resorting to something so drastic.

E.g. have you considered creating a user with restricted access to certain programs (example) and set up add-ons for web browsers that restrict access to certain websites?

I suppose I'll be watching two pile of snakes pretending to be people for the duration of which this plays out.

Oh

I'm going to miss the old thing :(

In my case I was ecosystem'd into RPM and Flatpak, so openSUSE makes me happy

Reddit is ProCSS

A world without advertising and marketing is a world without persuasion. These two concepts by themselves were never the problem, as they're just a means to increase awareness and demand for a product or service. To me it seems that you instead take issue with a consumerist society.

Fedora, I'm not a tech person by Linux user standards and I just need an OS that works