Electronic Frontier Foundation21h ago
When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. 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
Show threadDon Hawkins - W7DAH16h ago
@eff @WideEyedCurious The end of the “Inter-webs”. So be it. Probably all better off.
Show threadGlitzersachen

@donhawkins @eff @WideEyedCurious

I disagree. The "Interwebs" were and are not only Facebook, Whatsapp, Google and Xitter.

The Internet held promise. Which technically is not dead yet. I don't want the better future I once could see fall under the onslaught of greed (the tech bros) and totalitarianism (the state).

We shouldn't let it go silently and not without putting up a fight. The Internet is ours, not theirs.

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Show threadDon Hawkins - W7DAH12h ago
@glitzersachen @eff @WideEyedCurious I wish you the best of luck with that.