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Seat belts are different because if someone is in a car is not wearing one and carrying passengers, that person will become a 200 pound pinball in case of a crash and crush everyone else to death. Do YOU want to sign away your ability to criticize Trump and ICE because some dipshit parent didn't do what they're supposed to fucking do and got their kid groomed?
Spoken like someone who hasn't read up on how social media algorithms work, nor their effects on people's cognitive abilities. Have you seen the photos of parents with their dead kids at the various court hearings lately?
Slippery slope fallacy. We use ID to regulate all manner of things here in the US, and I'm still able to obtain them. And yes, given the gravity of the harm being caused to young people by social media, I'm happy to provide my ID in order to lock them out of it until they're adults, at least until a better and easier solution to the problem materializes.
It's not a fallacy, you fucking idiot, IT IS LITERAL FUCKING REALITY. They got fucking CAUGHT RED HANDED by a bunch of hackers using OpenAI to give the IDs from Discord to ICE, to either silence critics or kidnap more people.
Get your head out of the damn sand. You're not helping. Every single attempt to age check is the government simply trying to tie your online identity to your real identity to punish you eventually, and this administration does not give a rat's ass about the constitution. At some point they WILL attempt to arrest or deport people for online speech.
EDIT: Malwarebytes just reported on this. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed
And nobody's reporting on this? The only source is some rando on X?
Malwarebytes just reported on it.