Mx. Riley2d ago

I'm seeing openness to age verification laws within some left of center organizing spaces 😱

Folks, we gotta talk to our people to kill this harmful policy. Regulate dangerous big tech practices, not people!

LGBTQ+ kids in hostile environments suffer when they can't access community online.

Age verification also facilitates excluding representation of marginalized folks. Also, it is at odds with the right to repair — shouldn't we own our devices, and not the other way around?

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RE: https://social.riley.pub/@robin/116313183325858396

@robin its concerning is that resentment of big tech is so easily funneled into well-meaning but counterproductive formulations of tech policy; this ensures that the entities who would suffer most from sound and liberatory policies don't have their interests fundamentally threatened, and ensure that compelling alternative voices don't contradict their particular vision for the evolution of technology

Mar 29 at 11:36pmWeb