Electronic Frontier FoundationMar 13
What’s at stake in the fight against age verification is not just a single bill in a single state. It’s about whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control online that reinforces specific moral and religious worldviews. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

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@eff protecting children has been the pretext for the removal of many rights, privileges, and just privacy in general for the whole of my life and I’m sure longer than that. Unless it’s about “protecting women” (almost always white women for some reason) which it is also never about.
Mar 13 at 7:15pmWeb