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When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 week ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

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[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Fuck them kids

(Not literally)

[–] myyass@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

POTUS intensifies!

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This brand of edgy humor is so weird. The children aren't legislating your rights away, they're having their rights encroached on right along with you, by the Epstein class no less, a band of ghouls that have proven to be waaay more dangerous to children than adults

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s a joke

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app -1 points 1 week ago

This brand of edgy humor is so weird

[–] krakloskewm@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hot take: having children makes most people worse people.

[–] dusk@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

"Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding, The cretins cloning and feeding" ~ Harvey Danger, Flagpole Sitta 1997

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Or simply revealed their character

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Source: Trust me bro.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Completely agreed

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I was assuming this was a call back to the ice assholes in chicago.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

It's literally in the file.