@evacide A hypothesis I haven't tested but think we can assume unless someone wants to do the necessary web archive scraping:
Every porn site that would ever follow "age verification" lawsâevery site subject to any of the applicable jurisdictionsâalready had meta tags for adult content before those laws were ever bills. Minimum adequate parenting of "digital native" childrenâthus minimally adequate implementation of device administrative access and parental controlsâwould already block every site that would ever comply with the laws.
Therefore (as @404mediaco have also predicted), relative to porn access, the only real effect of such online panopticon laws is to direct people away from sites subject to democratic jurisdictions, which at least attempt to lawfully moderate content, and towards sites outside such jurisdictions, which deliberately distribute CSAM and other sex trafficking and SA content.
Legislatively outsourcing parenting onto the porn sites thus increases harm to everyone such laws claim to seek to protect.
#uspol #surveillance #censorship #privacy #idVerification #ageVerification
Too bad it was Woodford Reserve. đł
#USpol
âIâm not making this up: according to The Atlantic, Kash Patel has his own branded line of bourbon, complete with bottles that feature the FBI shield and his preferred spelling of his first name, KA$H. I hereby retire from satire.â - Andy Borowitz
Surprise...
Report: Trump's new Iran negotiator is Israel lobbyist Nick Stewart
Stewart "has declared his absolute opposition to negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran."
Stewart will advise real estate mogul & Trump golf buddy Steve Witkoff, who helped to inspire Iranâs rejection of the last round of negotiations.
"With Stewart on his team, it should be obvious to Tehran that there is no honest broker in Washington."
Scene of the assault from another angle. How many pigs does it take to pin one Black Man down? The fucking sight of it...
#MetGala2026 #JeffBezos #ChrisSmalls #UnionStrong #Labor #USPol #USPolitics #Oligarchy #Amazon #Protest #MetGala
#Maryland Is First to Ban #AI #Grocery #PriceGauging
A #state #law that goes into effect in October prohibits grocery stores & third-party delivery services from using consumer data to boost #prices.
The practice â supported by #ArtificialIntelligence & known as #DynamicPricing or #SurveillancePricing â can lead to 2 consumers paying different amounts for the same item from the same retailer, at roughly the same time.
#surveillance #tech #regulation #economy #inflation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The move comes directly in response to 404 Mediaâs coverage about how the FBI was able to recover incoming Signal messages from an iPhone because the messages were saved in the deviceâs notification storage.

The move comes directly in response to 404 Mediaâs coverage about how the FBI was able to recover incoming Signal messages from an iPhone because the messages were saved in the deviceâs notification storage.