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Age Verification is Now Mutating into General ID (www.freezenet.ca)
submitted 22 hours 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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[–] MinFapper@startrek.website 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You're shooting the messenger. Meta and others are lobbying governments hard for this. They're the ones causing you to lose your privacy. Not the volunteers that maintain systemd.

[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Then those volunteers can refuse. But they won’t, because they agree with this direction.

It’s plain as day. You’ll agree with me in a few years.