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EFF launches Age Verification Hub

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Re: EFF launches Age Verification Hub

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Post by mikece »

Any time law-makers claim that a law is meant to protect children you can guarantee that the safety of children had almost nothing to do with it. This is all a push to normalize digital ID (to protect the children!); once normalized it will become mandatory.

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Post by no_wizard »

mikece wrote: post #2

Any time law-makers claim that a law is meant to protect children you can guarantee that the safety of children had almost nothing to do with it. This is all a push to normalize digital ID (to protect the children!); once normalized it will become mandatory .

I always ask myself who wins with these laws (well, any law really). so far, the only winner seems to be the government and data collectors. It seems these laws are intended to collect leverage in the long run.

Re: EFF launches Age Verification Hub

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Not to mention people lose accounts because someone reported them as underage, and now they don't want to fully dox themselves over this. Who can blame them considering discord's own support ticket system was hacked which included people who had to validate their age.

Re: EFF launches Age Verification Hub

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Post by bobajeff »

I wonder what the psychological effect of having little or no privacy would do to people. Are we all going to be paranoid schizophrenics? How would a world of paranoid schizophrenics work? How insane are world events going to be from that point on?

Re: EFF launches Age Verification Hub

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Post by pyuser583 »

bobajeff wrote: post #8

I wonder what the psychological effect of having little or no privacy would do to people. Are we all going to be paranoid schizophrenics? How would a world of paranoid schizophrenics work? How insane are world events going to be from that point on?

You think you have privacy?

At best, you go back and forth between no privacy, a heavily condition privacy. At best.

Let’s take privacy back, but that’s a big process.

If you haven’t internalized surveillance, start working on it!

Re: EFF launches Age Verification Hub

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Post by guilamu »

no_wizard wrote: post #5
mikece wrote: post #2

Any time law-makers claim that a law is meant to protect children you can guarantee that the safety of children had almost nothing to do with it. This is all a push to normalize digital ID (to protect the children!); once normalized it will become mandatory .

I always ask myself who wins with these laws (well, any law really). so far, the only winner seems to be the government and data collectors. It seems these laws are intended to collect leverage in the long run.

Well, you just answered brilliantly to your own question. You nailed it.
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