There's "a popular misconception that age-verification mandates are going to be the best way to rein in big tech and hold them accountable," EFF's Molly Buckley told Rolling Stone - but these laws will just further line the biggest platforms' pockets. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/age-verification-legislation-united-states-online-safety-1235419895/
@eff I agree that is probably true, but then, I also agree that we need much better age restrictions on the internet. The critical mass of governments also believe there needs to be age restrictions, so if we're to have any chance of keeping anonymity on the internet, we need to accept that age restrictions are required, and focus our work on making sure they get implemented in the best possible way. Even in the #US with its #FirstAmendment, age restrictions are legal and in place for decades.
The "critical mass of governments" is the authoritarian yearnings of the forces currently facilitating ecocidal war profiteering. They don't give a single fuck about protecting children, thats just the halfassed excuse they lead with for controlling EVERYONE.
@violetmadder @eff sure, there are some governments like that. And there are also some governments built on the concepts of taking care of their people. The idea that governments can do something to improve the online lives of children exists at the same time as authoritarian governments will use popular excuses to do things purely to prop up their own power.
@eighthave @eff
NONE of them actually work the way they're supposed to according to what it says on the tin.
Governments around the world CLAIM to have been set up with the purpose of taking care of their people, but the purpose of a thing is what it actually DOES, not what it said it intended to do but isn't actually doing. And what they are doing, mostly, is grinding up most life on Earth to help rich people get richer.