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I honestly think that's just a bonus to them. They're doing it so they can link people's IDs to their online activity and we all get automatically Big brothered for the rest of time

Yes. Liberals aren't your friends. They appropriated queer politics to do exactly this. People have been warning against this for decades.

They are not being tricked into doing this, this is the second time the Liberal party alone has tried this along with other proposals from Cons and other internet authoritarianism policies like lawful access. They know what it is for and they understand the consequences of who it'll effect. It just so happens queer people (racialized people, indigenous people, disabled people, etc.) are also disproportionately politically active and challenging to liberal capitalism, and liberals have had an exceedingly difficult time shutting that down online through censorship alone.

It is not only distortive but also dangerous to accept that this is out of stupidity and ignorance. They are attacking us. "Elbows up," awards for the people who voted for Carney because they didn't think a minority govt with a stronger NDP presence was possible.

I think it's already here (globally, I mean). The beast is just now confident to show its face.

How many lawmakers are publicizing their support for Rule 34 on the internet?

Rule 34 is a famous internet maxim stating: "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions." It asserts that any conceivable subject, fictional character, corporate brand, or inanimate object has been or will be depicted in explicit content somewhere online.

End capitalism. It's no coincidence all these countries are pushing this in lockstep.

End goal is the death of online freedom.

Get angry, get involved in your local politics to bring democracy to the workplace and the economy.

It's not gonna get better otherwise.

My plan is to just never submit to an age verification. Change servers or self host if necessary. Worse comes to worse, we log off.

Everyone in power wants it. They all say "It's for the children". State govs have already done it for adult sites.

Seconding reticulum. Meshtastic is a toy, reticulum is actual infrastructure

Because it de facto requires everyone using the internet to provide their identity, which is something that gives authoritarian types a huge boner. Once there is no such thing as anonymous discourse, it becomes trivial to target/arrest/harass/brutalize dissenters or indeed anyone the current regime simply doesn't like.

I suspect it's just their way of inching towards requiring everyone to provide ID to access the internet, they pretty much always wrap this stuff up in some sort of "protect the children" hysteria, so they can accuse anyone who protests it of being a pedophile.

Also Meta is lobbying for it so they can get off the hook for having to moderate their own stuff by shunting the responsibility onto someone else.

It’s part of the data center push, Palantir, all of it. Centralized info storage so if anyone starts to push back anywhere they know exactly who and where. That and ads. The internet is too anonymous.

It’s the same set of billionaires. A little line between countries doesn’t mean much to them.