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Yeah, because it isn't about that. They don't give a fuck about kids seeing porn. Even when there are age checks, there will be plenty of free porn.
It's all about being able to connect an online post with the author.
Extremely stupid idea for a law but I don't think the people who are for this did it to sneak in surveillance. I think they are simply too stupid to understand digital tech and internet and how these laws won't work to fix the problems they are trying to solve - namely that a lot of young do too much of the bad internet. The surveillance thing is just a bonus
I can second this. It seems to me pretty clearly that these policies are being passed based on genuine concern for the children. They're poorly designed but they come from a good place.
it's not just the author, but the author's address, friends, family, employer, coworkers, shopping list, where they go and what they do in their spare time, what kind of health issues they have, who they're having affairs with--pretty much everything, wrapped up in a bow by AI, ready to be spreadsheeted/cross-referenced across all those data points.
what fascists do
Dig deep enough, you'll find something on anyone.
and any skeletons in your closet apparently only matters if you're opposed to fascism... be maga = get away with literally anything
Then just tick the 'straight to jail' box next to the names that are the 'wrong' color
They're doing this age verification on purpose just to spy on adults lol
Don't forget that they are also doing this to desensitize and normalize this for children...
Fascism starts with attacking the minorities. In this case minors are the tool, and reducing their rights to ashes will only enable further progression of fascism. It essentially feeds on discrimination.
Agreed. Divide and conquer
got to get em when they are young...
Yeah, and get ready for those big platforms selectively leaking user data, sometimes with falsified stuff. Get ready for union leaders suddenly being outed for being into weird shit (often literally), all while they're clueless and disgusted, as part of online smear campaigns. Always said that "cancel culture"/purity testing is a dangerous weapon that can be astroturfed by the enemy, and there's already some precedent for that (most recently the whole Hasan dog thing). Even some leftists are trying really hard to cancel some "annoying" people among them.
Canceculture is naziism