The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.

Some politicians have already stated this plainly.

This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.

This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.

This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.

This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.

This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.

Do not let them do this to us.

#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights

@Em0nM4stodon It’s never about protecting children.

@drahardja @Em0nM4stodon Evil stuff pretending to be benign.

Fascism is just another variation on the theme of selfishness.

Some humans find it breathtakingly hard to even conceive of helping others ...

@NicelyManifest @drahardja @Em0nM4stodon
An evolutionary trend we shall either grow beyond or suffer the existential consequences of.
Growing beyond evolutionary trends is in itself an evolutionary trend. Its a kind of like a negative selective corollary to the Fermi Paradox.

@MostlyTato @drahardja @Em0nM4stodon Not many manage to throw in matters pertaining to Fermi. In my electronics degree in the 1970s I remained ever baffled by the nature of Fermi levels.

Meta evolution maybe. But it tends to move slowly.

Pornography only operates because of retained basic instincts that see any visuals of sexual opportunities appear - context was presumed rather than checked.