ArneMar 23
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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
Mar 22 at 6:58pmTypefully
Show threadKnightmareMar 22
@eff and data gathering.
Show threadDon Hawkins - W7DAHMar 23
@eff @WideEyedCurious The end of the “Inter-webs”. So be it. Probably all better off.
Show threadbugMar 23
@eff thank you EFF for always being cool as hell, including in defending queer folk :3