Awesome, informative article from @luxalptraum about why online ID check laws are bad for the adult industry -- and everyone else, too. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/age-verification-laws-and-the-existential-fight-over-porn.html
@annaleen @luxalptraum I'm sure you already know this, but @eff is a great one to follow for online rights issues.
@jamesmarshall @luxalptraum @eff yep -- I used to work at EFF :)
@annaleen oh, goodness, somehow I did not know that! Lots of good, impressive folks there.
@annaleen @luxalptraum Comstock, Reagan , and the neopuritan hypocrites. But, surely, since there’s obscene stuff on meta, Mark Zuckerberg is steaming in with his defense of free speech, or it only counts if you don’t pay your content creators?