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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40170883

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.

  • org@lemmy.orgEnglish
    62·
    5 days ago

    I’m shocked that so many on Lemmy are siding with it. Look at the systemd conversations and like 1/3 of them are saying it’s a “nothing burger” (yes, the words they used).

    I just tag them all as ‘fed/magat’ and move on, but the number of them is disappointing.

        • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          22·
          3 days ago

          It added an age data box not unlike the already existing fields that can contain name, phone number, etc. which are not in use to verify you either.

          You can label anyone what you will but given the technically inclined who understand things here I encourage you to look again.

          Age verification is BS but adding a data field along with other existing ones isn’t doing anything by itself, especially as the distros themselves would have to be made to use it.