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When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

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Eric Schultz 6h ago

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Sean King 7h ago

@wwahammy What's even more eery is thinking about if the lawmakers in California that passed their version of an age verification law know what an operating system even is.

@nixCraft thus the only valid reaction is to proactively refuse to comply and actively sabotage such #cyberfascist efforts!

I mean, what's next?
- #Russia's #Roskomnadnozr demanding "#KYC" of #Users for using #WiFi chipsets?
- "P.R." #China's "Cybersecurity Administration" demanding system-wide blocking of #VPN & @torproject / #Tor?

Just like noone should comply with that #cyberfascism, so should noone comply with #US-based cyberfascism either!

Use #Monero and give #ITAR the finger…
- Refuse to finance #terrorism by refusing to create taxable revenue for U.S. corporations!

I certainly won't comply with cyberfascism in @OS1337 and any "#AgeVerification" is #fascist bullshit under false pretense that needs to be outlawed!

Eric Schultz 22h ago

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nixCraft 🐧1d ago

people don't realize this, but this is how they infect a good product and build surveillance network. today it is age verification for OS, tomorrow they will come with sex verification to target LGBQT+ groups or country verification to target minorities or immgirations, etc.

Meta, the evil corp who is behind this, wants everything trackable, starting with your age &d id verification, KYC, & whatnot. it is my computer, & i am not going to be tracked. it is the same reason you use an adblocker

Eric Schultz 22h ago

azul Sep 24

it's only a proton if it comes from the steam deck region of valve corporation, otherwise it's just a sparkling wine

Eric Schultz 22h ago

wagStoy 1d ago

Systemd commits: userdb: add birthDate, familyTree, killCount, potentialThreat, incomeYearly, isOnDoNotFly to JSON user records

OpenRC commits: add... puppies! ^.^ :P and also..... kittens!! (^ :3 ^) and remove GNUism to comply with POSIX definition that was denied in court 25 years ago but later standardized as of 2028. You'd hope.

Eric Schultz 22h ago

Computer Facts 1d ago

please verify your age before consuming any more facts

Eric Schultz 22h ago

aburka 🫣1d ago

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116266757533136607

A lot of open source projects are going to be trapped by this

Eric Schultz 23h ago

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Eric Schultz 1d ago

Also, no Soundcloud but I just released v1 of dumpcar, which provides commands for dumping and restoring the contents of your Rails PostgreSQL databases.

If you ever need to restore from a prod DB dump or want to save your dev DB's state before blowing it up, it's pretty slick.

https://github.com/PeevRb/dumpcar

GitHub - PeevRb/dumpcar: Commands for dumping and restoring the contents of your Rails PostgreSQL database

Commands for dumping and restoring the contents of your Rails PostgreSQL database - PeevRb/dumpcar

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Eric Schultz 1d ago

Also, no Soundcloud but I just released v1 of dumpcar, which provides commands for dumping and restoring the contents of your Rails PostgreSQL databases.

If you ever need to restore from a prod DB dump or want to save your dev DB's state before blowing it up, it's pretty slick.

https://github.com/PeevRb/dumpcar

GitHub - PeevRb/dumpcar: Commands for dumping and restoring the contents of your Rails PostgreSQL database

Commands for dumping and restoring the contents of your Rails PostgreSQL database - PeevRb/dumpcar

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