Sarah RothMar 14
Electronic Frontier Foundation
When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. 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.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Show thread2xfoMar 14

@eff
This isn't about kids, it's about creating lists of everything every adult looks at and says online.

If it is about the kids then we shouldn't be making a list of them for the pedophile government

Show threadAssimilateborgMar 14
@eff have you seen any law being created to avoid people accumulating massive amounts of money, buying an island, dragging kids there to rape them and inviting other billionaires to rape parties?
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 14

@eff the sheer idea of "#AgeVerification" is so #Cyberfascist that I want everyone to spread #Flashdrives with @tails_live / @tails / #Tails preinstalled, some #TorBridges on paper+QR and a printed out version of The Guide...

Cuz 3 truths are universl:

  • Do not forgive!
  • Do not forget!
  • Expect them!

#Sarcasm #commentary #politricjs #fascism

The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

Show threadDane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️Mar 17

@kkarhan @eff @tails_live @tails

I've started learning about i2p..

https://i2p.net/en/

I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN

I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.

Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 17

@TheLastOfHisName @eff @tails_live @tails granted #I2P does exist but I fnd it quite lacking compared to #Tor.

  • That being said it's always good to know both…
Show threadLukefromDCMar 14
@eff We need to work to sink every site that complies wirh age verification. This includes the Google Play and Apple Stores.
Show threadJanie Karma S 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏿Mar 14

@eff

https://mastodon.social/@Karma_J/116224375043716483

Show threadDouglasMar 14
@eff I can't get over the fact that Brazil is about to be the first country besides the US to implement this. 🤦‍♂️ It wasn't enough to be one of the first countries to enforce Google's ban on alternative app stores. Apparently, we just like taking in whatever crap comes out of the US.
Show threadquixoteMar 14

@eff We (those of us for privacy and controlling our own business) would get further, I think, if we simultaneously addressed the concerns of (some of?) the people on the other side.

They're desperate to stop the flood of mental sludge choking the web. They're not anti-privacy. But they do provide a socially acceptable screen of "widows and orphans" for the politicos and broligarchs to hide behind.

Pointing out the privacy problems is useful. But how about if there's at least one paragraph talking about how to solve the sludge issue?

A whistleblower (don't remember his name) said recently that (I think it was) Facebook could do a one-click solution to the problem. But he didn't say what. Somebody here or at EFF probably knows what he meant. So mention it! Explain it. Say why it would or wouldn't work.

Mention solutions for pollution that *work with* privacy and own-control. Point out that it's not a fight of either privacy OR crap. If there's a way to have both, point it out.

My wild guess is that the way involves broligarchs modifying their damn products. And that the assumption is that's hopeless. So we all talk about something else. Let's not. There has to be a better choice than either drowning in sludge or living in a constant colonoscopy.