yeah, good luck with that. I'll just go read a book under a tree at that point. The internet can just be a bunch of bots shitposting to each other. The day I have to have ID to use the internet is the day I log off for good.
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The reason they want age verification isn’t to protect the kids. It’s to verify the entity making a request is a real person and not a bot so they can charge more for the ad space.
Also to track what everyone does on the internet so it can be used against them.
That’s what the government wants and happens to align with industry
Yep why do you think Facebook is behind most of these bills.
The ultimate reason is surveillance state, and Trotsky deserves exhumation and incineration for his treachery of the working class, of which his despicable list is but a foreboding symbol.
Tech companies used to push back on stuff like this, but now that they need to fix the ad market they’re fine with the surveillance.
Its been over a decade since i last sat in a hammock and read a book. Kinda excited for the internet to die now tbh.
The chains are starting to break, we're almost free!
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Better get to that quick. Before we move to burn all the rest of the books.
You know you can do both right now...go read a book on the internet under a tree. In fact, I recommend reading Brave New World specifically. It'll be a good time (no sarcasm).
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We're going to PROTECT the CHILDREN by ~~PROSECUTING Jeffrey Epstein's CO Conspirators!~~ GIVING Jeffrey Epstein's CO Conspirators ACCESS to your Children!
Now they don't have to wait for you to put your daughter into modeling or beauty contest. They can access her right through your Wi-Fi.
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They’re preparing for civil unrest.
Remember, it’s not about the kids.
It never was. But repubs certainly can't stop thinking about them.
There's a lot of blue seats in that image too
If they actually cared about kids, the Epstein files would have been released ages ago with no redactions. No politician cares about you or your kids.
the list of "if they actually cared about kids, they would have/should have done X" is so long you could probably print it out at an 8 point font and it'd still reach from coast to coast across the width of america.
You don't get it. This is to know who is underage and where they live. No one said Epstein's death was the end of their pedo business.
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Never about protecting children about fighting privacy and making data collection easier.
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Democrats are smiling foxes.
Surprised to see Hirono on there, thats disappointing. But Schumer, Slotkin, Fetterman, Kloubachar, Whitehouse, Warner .. the usual band of traitorous republican-lite DNC idiots is no big surprise. Thanks for the link.
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Welcome back, SOPA. We didn't miss you. In fact, SOPA should've been actually dead instead of waiting to resurface for 14 years.
What the hell? Where did the time go? We’re stuck in the goddamned land of lotus flowers here. Can the internet itself just die already?
I wonder if it'll ever be feasible to do some kind of mass, federated mesh networking to cut out the ISPs altogether.
Ohh that would be fantastic!
For now I guess I2P can/will help
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This title may be cited as the Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net Act or the SCREEN Act.
Oh wow, they really love their acronyms!
Or the 'Killing Internet Dissent and Speech' Act. KOSA is the 'Killing Online Speech Act.'
This is one of those deals where the ALL fall in line from both parties. That's when you know the Big Fix is in. The Sociopathic Oligarchs demanded this because it not only makes them mind-boggling wealth, but it also allows them to kill those who are causing them trouble.
And the people we elected to protect us, sold us out - nearly all of them.
This is such bullshit. If they really cared about the well-being of children, they'd make sure they had free healthcare, free daycare, and free college/trade school.
This is ONLY about connecting our identities with our online activity. They just put a bunch of people in prison for DECADES for possessing writings that were "anti-government," so that allowed them to be classified as ANTIFA terrorists. This will allow them to do that with ANYONE who posts something they don't like.
Just because these parasites claim to have a righteous rationalization for this, doesn't mean we have to accept it. We KNOW they are lying, and the real reason is to control the adults of this country, not the children.
A lifetime of invasive surveillance is far more damaging to society, than kids discovering that men and women have different genitalia.
WHAT THE FUCK. Fuck my representative fucking hell
internet was fun while it lasted; new internet is ass anyway
This will be a kiss of death for every site that enacts it
Should we just share memes and titties outside since the normies moved online and fucked it up?
Chat, we're cooked.
[Child detected... blocking traffic]
Looking forward to the Epstein class vetoing this when they realize they can’t watch their preferred type of porn any more
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I’m tired man
Playboy about to make a comeback
Secret smut stash in the woods is about to be a thing again.
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Obviously, I hate it, but
specified online platforms
that's a lot more weaksauce than I was expecting. I guess these old fossils don't know that there are websites based in other countries
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