Age verification laws are really just censorship mandates clothed as child safety proposals—here’s why. 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
@eff don't worry, once passed same people will say any right wing content must be exempted because otherwise it is trampling on rotten free peaches...
@htpcnz @eff It will be the 1990s’ "cyber nannies" software over again, when the conservative companies pushing them blocked ACLU and the like but let through right-wing hate sites.