Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all?
It is. You’re using social media right now. So is IRC if you think about it. Anything with a “message component” that “exchanges user submitted information between other users” or whatever can be classified as social media.
Under that definition, it’s very easy to group things such as forums, github/gitlab/whatever. Now you can’t even voice complaints or get and help build source code to resist.
Fuck age verification laws. Anything less than calling it encroachment on liberty and democracy itself is boot licking.
As if social media == internet.
It is. You’re using social media right now. So is IRC if you think about it. Anything with a “message component” that “exchanges user submitted information between other users” or whatever can be classified as social media.
Under that definition, it’s very easy to group things such as forums, github/gitlab/whatever. Now you can’t even voice complaints or get and help build source code to resist.
Fuck age verification laws. Anything less than calling it encroachment on liberty and democracy itself is boot licking.