joekamprad 2d ago
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Show threadLukefromDC2d ago

@eff We need to strive to kill every platform that complies so as to drive all traffic to underground/darknet/defying servers and destroy this law's power.

Same idea as the pill networks that have castrated antiabortion law

Show threadclonedhuman2d ago
@eff Any law claiming to 'protect children' that doesn't include more time off for parents, or more food, or easier access to education, or free daycare, or regular medical checkups, is a fascist power grab.
Show threadSassinake!2d ago

@eff

it also further 'domesticates' people into submissive 'adults',
or full-grown 'minors' (who resist cooperation).

either sub-category will be censored or rewarded differently.

Show threadHTPC NZ2d ago
@eff only world view that will be allowed is the right wing nonsense as it is the only protected free speech pretty much universally.
Show threadKnightmare2d ago
@eff control and data gathering.
Show threadJohn Smith2d ago
@eff can we make more of the fact that creating OS level age identification signals allows children to be specifically targeted by malicious actors (best case scenarior being scammers due to children being more vulnerable to soceng, but also much worse cases eg roblox). The law being promoted as "protecting children" may actually put them in real danger.