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

Y’know @neil one of these days you’re going to wake up and find you’ve become a revolutionary anarchist, relatively speaking.

Same here. My opinions remain fairly constant, but the Overton Window almost keeps rushing past.

@slothrop

> you're going to wake up and find you’ve become a revolutionary anarchist

Wow. I sound *sexy*.

@neil

I think we all sound sexy in our own minds?
Do we not?
😂

@slothrop

@RandyNose @neil @slothrop Speak for yourself, I just sound a bit nasal.

@RandyNose @neil https://youtu.be/P5mtclwloEQ

(I remember when this came out in 1991, people were wondering whether the video might be hinting at queer sexuality. And yeah, maybe??)

Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy (Original Mix - 2006 Version)

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