[The Friday Five for 20 March 2026](<a href="https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/150150.html">https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/150150.html</a>)<br /><br />**1. What was the reason you began a Dreamwidth or LiveJournal account (or both)?**<br /><br />In 2000, a lot of the UK Goth scene ended up
About social media verification and the mess it's evolving into in the US.
This is info collected as of early March, 2026, from the POV of a small but solvent social media site. #Dreamwidth
"The Magic 8 Ball says: the Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, and some of the New Jersey bills are on the "good chance it will pass" list, and if you live in one of those states, you should go pester your representatives about it/them."
People frequently ask us about whether their specific US state is trying to enact a social media age verification law so they can call their state representatives and yell at them about it! I have had "build a system that will let me easily update this without having to do so manually, categorizing
Super-useful post from Denise of #Dreamwidth, going state-by-state through the various awful #privacy-destroying bills that have been introduced in each (#American) state in the name of "but think of the children!" pearl-clutching: https://dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html
Worth checking out if you live in the #US and care at all about privacy, and contacting your legislators if your state is on the list!
People frequently ask us about whether their specific US state is trying to enact a social media age verification law so they can call their state representatives and yell at them about it! I have had "build a system that will let me easily update this without having to do so manually, categorizing
#dreamwidth is looking for Dreamwidth users in states with current or pending age-laws to join in a legal action fighting age-of-access laws.
Should this account be split into TFC-SW and TFC-CW? To separate the ScienceWorld & ComputerWorld communities?
I want to rename it to distance our past selves from VF and emphasize our own platform, #TheFreaksClub. (Despite mainly being active in #Dreamwidth while ramping back up.)
https://scienceworld.dreamwidth.org/
https://computerworld.dreamwidth.org/
"I'll repeat my promise to you all: we will fight every state attempt to impose mandatory age verification and deanonymization on our users as hard as we possibly can, and we will keep actions like this to the clear cases where there's no doubt that we have to take action in order to prevent liability. " #Dreamwidth continuing to fight the good fight. ✊🏻
https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/45267.html #AgeRestriction #fascism
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