Proposal:
Replace all uses of the phrase "age verification" with either "surveillance age discrimination" or "surveillance age censorship."
Background:
If you talk to liberals about misogyny or sexism, they almost all say they are opposed to all forms of sex discrimination, and they say they support laws prohibiting sex discrimination.
But if you then ask them about having "sex" listed on government IDs, they get confused. "What's wrong with having sex on our IDs? Isn't that just normal?"
The only reason to have "sex" on IDs is to make discrimination on the basis of sex easier. Governments have all passed laws to enable sex discrimination, while many of the same governments have also passed laws that nominally make sex discrimination illegal.
Maybe that seems obvious to you if you are heavily involved in civil rights activism, but to most people it is not obvious.
https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Familiarity
This lack of understanding gives anyone proposing a policy of sex discrimination a powerful propaganda tool.
We can see an example with the recent Olympics policy change. The actual policy is a ban on intersex women in the Olympics. It means more sex discrimination than the Olympics were already doing.
The Olympics knows that sounds bad, so they instead market it as sex verification. "Don't worry, we aren't discriminating on the basis of sex, we're just verifying your sex!" Of course, the only reason they want to "verify" your sex is to use that information to discriminate, but they know that many people won't connect the dots. Sex testing is the enforcement mechanism, but the effect is sex discrimination.
You can see a similar pattern when liberal politicians struggle to answer the question "what is a woman?" As I've argued previously, the correct answer for a senator to give is "None of the government's business."
https://transfem.social/notes/ahpa0efcqfo006gi
So now, let's turn to the hot topic of surveillance age censorship. Many fedicreatures have already pointed out that "age verification" is a euphemism for surveillance. And while that's partially true, it actually goes much further: it's surveillance and then using the collected information to persecute one of the most vulnerable minorities.
Surveillance is the mechanism, but it is not the only effect. When you see comments like
Don't worry, the EU has an age verification app that is open source and only shows each website two bits of information!They are missing the point, either accidentally or deliberately. The trouble with the discrimination and censorship app isn't the exact quantity of information it leaks, it's that it is being used for discrimination and censorship.
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