The increasing pressure from well-meaning people -- even on the left -- for "online age-verification" is in effect a call for censorship and further destruction of privacy.
They don't care, as long as they can claim to be protecting kids.
They think they can keep the totally predictable problems under control, but that shows contempt for history and what we already know about technology.
One example: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/global-suppression-online-lgbtq-speech-continues
Are consequences unintended if they're predictable? No.
Dan Gillmor /
npub1ry…kma3q
2024-07-05 00:27:30
Author Public Key
npub1ry2mcdygmcufem93yun6cqvl8q6weyqa8zfyud6ys0kuyr7paaesekma3qPublished at
2024-07-05 00:27:30Event JSON
{
"id": "478f2a9ad6315bd0f09570e99e285454fac5fb987b63908f980d821c6c39447d",
"pubkey": "1915bc3488de389cecb12727ac019f3834ec901d38924e374483edc20fc1ef73",
"created_at": 1720139250,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112731045942088637",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/dangillmor/statuses/112731045942088637",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mastodon.social/users/dangillmor/statuses/112731045942088637",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"expiration",
"1722773723"
]
],
"content": "The increasing pressure from well-meaning people -- even on the left -- for \"online age-verification\" is in effect a call for censorship and further destruction of privacy. \n\nThey don't care, as long as they can claim to be protecting kids.\n\nThey think they can keep the totally predictable problems under control, but that shows contempt for history and what we already know about technology. \n\nOne example: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/global-suppression-online-lgbtq-speech-continues\n\nAre consequences unintended if they're predictable? No.",
"sig": "17a3f0f762a7450d2d366260a01f82240652c8a5aaf3490013ac54fd09eaeb093f1efdfca38eb57a3f43b4b288a8d5fe09e56c9cc9c00b9b40249935fc8aefd8"
}