What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40170883

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      24 days ago

      It added an age data box not unlike the already existing fields that can contain name, phone number, etc. which are not in use to verify you either.

      You can label anyone what you will but given the technically inclined who understand things here I encourage you to look again.

      Age verification is BS but adding a data field along with other existing ones isn’t doing anything by itself, especially as the distros themselves would have to be made to use it.

        • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
          1·
          23 days ago

          Well he gave me an actual answer while you shit the bed. Being a dick for no reason is a fast way to make sure no one takes you seriously.

        • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          24 days ago

          Sure thing pal.

          It’s a real shame Bell Labs started this slippery slope with gecos half a century ago. Slippery indeed.