Jon Snow

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/

#AgeVerification #IDverification #privacy #surveillance #censorship #dystopia #technology #USA

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

The Intercept
Mar 6 at 12:20pmWeb
Show threadPer Jakobsen (no anonymity)Mar 6

@jonsnow

There is always a fine line between being ‘watched’ or being able to destroy and mislead (lie), under anonymity.

Show threadDavid John MatthewsMar 6
@jonsnow Herding the sheep into a cage to steal all their data. I guess It's only a matter of time before l unjoin everything American. I Don't have Facebook, buy friends or fans site, X right wing pedofile porn site, Instagram steal your pictures site, Tumblr scammers paradise, Wordpress shadow ban site, Neocities scam site for stealing peoples intellectual property. You tube shadow ban site. I hardly have anything American now and do country checks before l join. For freedom of speach.
Show threadGrow FediverseMar 6
@jonsnow It figures that the people found in the Epstein files wanna know where all our children are located 🙃
Show threadMimiWhiskersMar 6
@jonsnow We have the internet since the early 90's...Oh gee whiz, I wonder why it's a problem now? 🤔
Show threadAlexa FontanillaMar 6
@MimiWhiskers
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
IN AUGUST 2024, the Biden administration hosted hundreds of influencers at the White House for the first-ever Creator Economy Conference. Neera Tanden, a senior Biden adviser, took to the stage and bemoaned anonymity online.
Show threadAlexa FontanillaMar 6
@MimiWhiskers
The influencers alongside her agreed, pushing the idea that anonymous speech on the internet is harmful, and regulation is needed to force the use of real names on social media. The audience whispered excitedly as those on stage spoke about how proposed laws like the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, could unmask every troll.
Show threadAlexa FontanillaMar 6
@MimiWhiskers
This narrative of online safety, particularly in relation to children, has become central to the bipartisan effort to censor and deanonymize the internet for everyone. Today, a package of a dozen “child online safety” bills is moving forward in the House of Representatives with bipartisan support.
Show threadAlexa FontanillaMar 6

@MimiWhiskers
The laws, framed as a way to crack down on harmful content and make the internet safer, would force social media companies to enact invasive identity verification measures in order to keep children from accessing online spaces.

The problem is that there’s no way to reliably verify someone’s age without verifying who they are.

Show threadAlexa FontanillaMar 6
@MimiWhiskers
A platform cannot magically discern that a user is 16 without collecting identifying information, whether through government documents such as a passport, payment information like a credit card, or other identity-disclosing data. Whether that data is stored by the platform itself or outsourced to a vendor, the result is always the same: A user’s offline identity is forever linked with their online behavior.
Show threadElon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺Mar 6
@jonsnow The future: https://freenet.org/
Freenet

Show threadJon SnowMar 6
@bhasic 🤔
Show threadChris Dolunt ☀️🌱⚙️📖🎲Mar 6
@jonsnow The corporate-government enshittification alliance is why we can't have nice things. The Internet has been broken for a while now. What do we do next? Community wireless mesh networking maybe?
Show threadsb arms & legsMar 6
@jonsnow
vOtE BlUe nO mAtTeR wHo
Show threadChristo. London, EnglandMar 8
@jonsnow
Does that include politicians?