4mo ago

"Age verification" laws are privacy-killing laws

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Evan Greer via BlueSky

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Bro but have you thought about the kids
The same regimes across the world that enable child rape by catholic clergy is now telling you that they are worried about the teenagers watching porn online 🤡
- 9 year olds in Gaza have seen the destruction of their homes and community and likely seen bodies shredded by bombs and shrapnel. I don't give a fuck if a 9 year old wants to see a tit.
  
  This ain't about what you want, boy
  This is about what daddy wants and he has ability to get whatever he wants.
  Crux of the dilemma tbh
  
  9 is WAY too young for sexual content. I don't even think Muslim men should be allowed to marry a girl until she's AT LEAST 12 or older.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse
  The term was coined by Timothy C. May in 1988. May referred to "child pornographers, terrorists, drug dealers, etc.". May used the phrase to express disdain for what he perceived as "Think of the children" argumentation by government officials and others seeking to justify limiting the civilian use of cryptography tools. Connotations related to such argumentation continue to be attached to the phrase, and it is more commonly used by those who wish to deride various restrictions on Internet activity than by those who support such restrictions.
- Never trust them, they've proven themselves untrust****
I'd just stop using the internet at that point.
It's by design. There are laws that prevent tracking of minors, and this law legally bypass those.

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