Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next

vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No, they are censorship laws aimed at preventing young people from accessing certain types of information that specific groups don’t want young people learning about, such as their sexuality, concepts like atheism, and safety information regarding drugs.

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No. History taught me one thing only: if they say they want to protect kids, it’s never about the kids. It’s a slogan that helps to sell unpopular laws

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    • Redvenom@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Exactly, they have all this already established laws to protect kids, but everyone seem pretty chill about pedofiles

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you think blocking access to knowledge about sexuality, atheism, or drugs is actually protecting children and not about a controlling unpopular law I don’t know what to tell you. Because it’s clearly not actually intended to protect children as much as it is to block inconvenient information to help indoctrinate children to be compliant and unquestioning.

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      • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They want to bind your id with the device you use and restricting queer kids from discovering that they’re queer is the best thing you have in mind?

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      • Mesa@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, I think you’re arguing with clouds. This person isn’t saying these aren’t effects or even objectives of the age verification effort, but it’s a little silly to say, “No, this isn’t about surveillance, it’s about stifling LGBTQ and atheist progression.” It’s just so tunnel-visioned.

        You could’ve even said it’s about centralizing education as a whole and that would’ve been better encompassing. I agree, that’s a bad thing. But it’s absolutely not the full picture.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. Surveillance is covered already.

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