Mastodawn

@EUCommission Lately, you've been bringing up child protection way too often, in one way or another. You’ve gotta realize it’s getting pretty obvious...
#ThinkoftheChildren #LovejoysLaw

Laurel L Russwurm 1d ago

e-7317 is a petition every Canadian should sign in self defense.

#CDNpoli #lifenotdeath #peacenotwar #warisover #givepeaceachance #thinkofthechildren

https://whoacanada.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/canada-peacekeeper-or-warmonger/

Canada: Peacekeeper or Warmonger?

When I was young, I was proud to be Canadian for a number of reasons. One was the fact Canada had been instrumental in developing International Human Rights Law. The Canadian Bill of Rights and the…

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Bob Jonkman Apr 26

@sleepy62

Banning social media for minors isn't to minimize risk to minors, it's to maximize votes for politicians.

@MatWright

#ThinkOfTheChildren #MBpoli #Manitoba

Techdirt [Unofficial]Apr 21

The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: New Pew Study Deflates The Social Media Panic

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/21/the-kids-are-mostly-alright-new-pew-study-deflates-the-social-media-panic/

The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: New Pew Study Deflates The Social Media Panic

A couple weeks back, Jonathan Haidt published another entry in his ongoing campaign to convince the world that social media is inherently ruining kids’ lives. This one was a victory lap title…

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lucie digitální Apr 1

"The kids are still online and they’re still being harmed. In some cases, it might even be worse. Yesterday I reported that eSafety had privately acknowledged that forcing kids to use platforms in a logged-out state could be exposing them to more harm."

If only someone had foreseen this outcome.

#AusPol #SocialMedia #ThinkOfTheChildren
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/31/australias-teen-social-media-ban-isnt-working-yet/

It’s official: Australia’s teen social media ban isn’t working, yet.

The first eSafety report on the social media minimum age shows that kids are getting around the ban, they're reporting the same level of online abuse, and age checking technology isn't working as well as hoped. It's a diabolical early result.

Crikey

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Mar 30

Dylan "I read the law and I'm here to implement it" M. Tylor gets up in the morning and decides to write age verification code that he himself calls "hilariously pointless and ineffective", within a week strikes 4 repos off his list, and i bet the Linux Kernel is going to be next (I'm joking... mostly)

It's worth noting that the first people who approved the PR on systemd repo are 2 big tech employees - Mircoslop and Redhat/IBM (why I'm i not surprised!!), someone then opened a revert PR, Lennart Poettering (systemd creator) closed it.. thus blocking the removal

And this is why you now have Liberated Systemd, a fork of systemd without Age verification.. which IS 'hilariously pointless and ineffective' at saving children

when engineers starts reading the law like a specification, this is what you get.. useful idiots.

#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec

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Mar 30

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116307429187383416

I'm not worried about the surveillance laws as much as I'm worried about the "bUt wE cAn mAKe iT pRivAte" camp

#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec

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Mar 28

Honestly.. at first i was surprised (and disappointed) at some major Linux distributions not having a clear answer to age verification laws after weeks of their announcement, but then lots of them started discussing them. really! discussing them! what's there to be discussed?

"maybe we can implement age checks in a privacy respecting manner? 👉👈"

And it's just so happens this serves the corporation that you work for best interests! Big tech "Foss devs" have a clear conflict of interest here

#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec

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Mar 27

Did you know that #systemd already has `emailAddress`, `realName`, and `location` fields? but they where never meant for home users, only enterprise workflows, so adding `birthDate field` isn't really much work, and you could see why systemd doesn't consider that bloat

And this is exactly why systemd is bloated because it doesn't consider lots of things to be bloat in the first place

It's never a good idea to rely on software that serves corporations best interests, because corporations care about profit not principles, #FOSS principles.

#privacy #anonymity #ageverification #ubuntu #fedora #linux #arch #pop_os #midnightbsd #bsd #surveillance #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren