Dan Gillmor on Nostr: As Mike Masnick ✅ points out, so-called "age verification" laws to participate in ...
As Mike Masnick ✅ (npub14j8…pjuf) points out, so-called "age verification" laws to participate in online activities amount to creating a license to read, and to speak. Anonymity would effectively be banned.
It's also a license for other people to know, in a granular way, what you are reading and saying -- and your personal information would be held by people who cannot be trusted in any way.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/08/didnt-we-already-do-this-twenty-years-after-supreme-court-rejected-age-verification-law-it-takes-up-new-case/
Maybe the worst part of this is that some alleged liberals are all in for this evil plan.
It's also a license for other people to know, in a granular way, what you are reading and saying -- and your personal information would be held by people who cannot be trusted in any way.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/08/didnt-we-already-do-this-twenty-years-after-supreme-court-rejected-age-verification-law-it-takes-up-new-case/
Maybe the worst part of this is that some alleged liberals are all in for this evil plan.