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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 I fucking refuse. if it's my life or theirs, then guess I get to end up in a cell.

RadicalEcologist Mar 21

@Em0nM4stodon
This is why I advocate for #CyberRiot and sabotage to show them that we control the computer and will take power back from them. Action must start now or we will be fighting from the back foot, again.

LukefromDC Mar 22

@RadicalEcologist @Em0nM4stodon No server or app should be able to comply with age/identity verification without being hacked and knocked off the Internet.

RadicalEcologist Mar 22

@LukefromDC
We only need to start with developer participation in a #CyberRiot and supporters applying pressure on them to do so. The entire world runs on #FOSS projects held together by core teams of a handful of people. We can begin the fight from the core outwards this time because we already control that space.
@Em0nM4stodon

Wouter 🇳🇱🇧🇷🇧🇪Mar 21

@Em0nM4stodon It’s those in power who want this. To increase their control over us. And then there are those stupid idiots who say: ‘I’ve got nothing to hide. Go ahead.’

AAA Trans Pirate Mar 21

the lesson the powerful learned from tik tok is that we fucking hate them and they no longer have control of the narrative

Lisa Melton Mar 21

@Em0nM4stodon This. 💯

Kinene⭐🐻Mar 21

@Em0nM4stodon They lie to us, we lie to them. Extra points for creativity.

It's kind of preaching to the choir here. Mastodon seems to be a haven for peeps, either by vocation, or life circumstances are attuned to the problems this will cause.

I see semi supportive comments showup even on general tech sites, where I feel they should know better. For the general population? I don't know what it would take to get them to oppose "protecting the children"(lulz). If all this(looks around, stretches arms) doesn't cause alarm, I don't know what will.

Robert H Mar 22

@lxskllr @Em0nM4stodon

The tech types--and not the tech bros--understand full well the implication of the "common sense measures to protect the children."

Remind them that even public figures need the protection of anonymity. Publius was the pseudonym of John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

Work in Progress 🌻Mar 21

@Em0nM4stodon In the US, we need to fight against KOSA, which is advancing in our legislature.

The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone

This bill won’t bother big tech. Large companies will be able to manage this regulation, which is why Apple and X have agreed to support it. In fact, X helped negotiate the text of the last version of this bill we saw. Meanwhile, those companies’ smaller competitors will be left scrambling to comply. Under KOSA, a small platform hosting mental health discussion boards will be just as vulnerable as Meta or TikTok—but much less able to defend itself.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/kids-online-safety-act-will-make-internet-worse-everyone

The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone

Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some degree, all of us—should be allowed to read online. KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

LukefromDC Mar 22

@unfinishedsymphony @Em0nM4stodon The defense will be to stop using hosting inside the U$

CriticalBackend Mar 22

@unfinishedsymphony @Em0nM4stodon as someone from the UK I am appalled that this law was implemented, it will do nothing but harm. I see no good coming out of it

Justin Macleod Mar 23

@unfinishedsymphony @Em0nM4stodon Goodness please do! The UK's Online Safety Act has been a disaster!

Peter_Panther Mar 22

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

To get MEPs uphold the vote against mass surveilance of messengers.

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

@Em0nM4stodon because we cannot encrypt WhatsApp messages and send base64 over Whatsapp protocol? Just see these end to end eNcRyPtEd systems as plain old good SMTP. Then just apply S/MIME on top of it. 🤷‍♂️🤣

Pēteris Krišjānis Mar 23

@Em0nM4stodon yep, even if some of laws did not start this way, intent has been telegraphed many times.
This shall not pass, but also there should be very VERY LOUD NO.

Nuwagaba Gift Mar 25

@peteriskrisjanis
Is a loud NO enough to stop it or some action must be taken?

Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🫂🔞Mar 23

@Em0nM4stodon If they can do all that already then "democracy" had already ended. But in truth it was never actual democracy anyway. Do you really think anyone would genuinely let people decide for themselves?

@Em0nM4stodon
I think in this situation this sums it up better than me having to type a response, we all know what needs to be said:

Tech Chap Apr 6

@Em0nM4stodon I also wondered if this was the tech companies backlash to having to restrict content and do moderation for children who hence become cost centres rather than income.

EndicottRoad59 Apr 11

@Em0nM4stodon I have always fought against such censorship.

I_give_u_worms May 28

@Em0nM4stodon I'm sure the many Russian bots who are already ginning up additional racism and swatting people will be compliant.