Mastodawn

The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.

Perhaps I am some kind of dangerous computer radical these days, thinking that one should be able to buy or make a computer, install one's choice of OSs and software, create a local user account, and get on with one's affairs, privately and without interference.

Quiet enjoyment of one's computer.

* No age or ID verification

* No jumping through hoops to install software, or third parties restricting the software that one can run

* No third party accounts

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Tak!14h ago

@neil fwiw this should also apply to phones

@Tak Yes, computers.

@neil @Tak Yes. There's no such thing as a "phone" anymore. POTS is a cesspit of spam and scams. Nobody answers it. There are just handheld computers with cellular radios for internet access, which the industry gets to treat as if they were still phones for the purpose of controlling you.

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Tak!6h ago

@dalias @neil I remember complaining years ago about companies caring whether I had root access to my own phone, and several people independently came at me with "but you're connected to the phone network, you could do 1337 h4xx!!!" 🙄