Mastodawn

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.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Eric Schultz 13h ago

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Sean King 14h 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.

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Eric Schultz 1d ago

@pavel @calcifer IANAL, but as I read the law, it regulates "operating system providers" which specifically includes any person or entity who develops an operating system for a general-computing device.

Sure sounds like it applies to any developer.

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Eric Schultz 1d ago

@txtx ah so, I didn't post that information, thanks for clarifying.

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Eric Schultz 1d ago

@ai6yr fortunately, I don't have to worry about these ants because I'm not a cow. 🙂

@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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

Computer Facts 1d ago

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