Dan Gillmor on Nostr: The increasing pressure from well-meaning people -- even on the left -- for "online ...
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.
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.