Electronic Frontier FoundationMar 14
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.

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@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.
Mar 14 at 11:11pmPhanpy