@mttn @f4grx @feoh @joeress laws are optional; especailly for corporations; apple ignores laws all the time

but laws absolutely rely on most people complying actually; just dont  and then they rely on propaganda to get other people to intentionally hurt other people because they 'deserve it' or its a 'punishment' or some shit;

it relies on most people just complying; and it relies on a thought of 'this wont happen to me' and inverting blame and discounting, those who are victimized by it

its just some orginization that makes violent threats towards everyone if they don't do what they say; im tired of them being given a shred of legitimacy,

fuck laws, fuck the state,

@mttn @f4grx @feoh @joeress Apparently they haven't really tried. Big Tech gets away with almost anything and they spend fortunes to lobby governments. They just do that only on behalf of their bottom line, not on behalf of their users. They get every regulation against their monopolies and 30% rent stopped except for in court maybe, they get tax havens and subsidies and what not. And here they were helpless and couldn't have stopped age verification if they wanted to? I call bullshit.

Age verification comes to Big Tech because it doesn't hurt their bottom line as much as regulation that would work. That would require paid personpower for moderation, reliable takedowns, and crucially no forced algorithms based on engagement and ad-click revenue.

@mttn @f4grx @feoh @joeress

Apple created a device user have no administrator control over, not the goverment. Such laws are directly enabled by the top-down software control model developed by biggest companies.

@golemwire @divVerent @joeress

I thinks it's more likely that someone, or someone's relatives, will acquire shares in, or some kind of partnership with, a foreign router manufacturer who will then be granted a license to export routers to the USA, maybe?

@rusty_shackleford

"Yea, trump."

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/the-attack-on-free-speech-under-the-second-trump-administration