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Age Verification is Now Mutating into General ID (www.freezenet.ca)
submitted 1 day ago by Gnergy@piefed.europe.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Surveillance creep is once again striking in the age verification debate. This is happening at the FCC this time.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Exactly. The point is not the technical details of the implementation. The point is that their act of capitulation endorsed the concept.

As Free Software developers, they had an ethical obligation to resist and they didn't.