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Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone

What could possibly go wrong?

https://twitter.com/PrivacyMatters/status/2039955877382226278

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116313176350075873

One of the aspects of #ageverification and #OnlineSafetyAct that few talk about:

Imagine your kid turns 18 and on that very same day, on a still rather vulnerable age, they are bombarded with ads about performing sex work, joining the army, buying guns, alcohol, and whatever addictive tobacco alternative is trending this year.

All thanks to pushing for age and digital IDs being such an available piece of information in the digital landscape.

The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJ

Excellent piece:

The lesson from these examples isn’t that protecting children online is misguided or an unworthy goal. It is that the means proposed to achieve this end pose significant risks to human rights, and that the tools created for that purpose can easily become instruments of broader control over speech once governments acquire them.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/social-media-freedom-speech-meta-youtube-ruling-32aaee3b archived at: https://archive.ph/PMCjL