Electronic Frontier FoundationMar 16
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.

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@eff I honestly think it's even more sinister than that... It's really about feeding surveillance capitalism so that Palantir and their partners can sell the government automated murder systems like Maven with which to target dissidents. https://blog.palantir.com/maven-smart-system-innovating-for-the-alliance-5ebc31709eea

The firms lobbying for these laws are all in the business of data harvesting to profile and de-anonymize people on the internet, and their bottom line comes from having juicy data to sell to corps and agencies with the deepest pockets.

Maven Smart System: Innovating for the Alliance

Industry partners from Europe and North America are coming together to build the next generation of defense capabilities for NATO.

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