E Blorbos Fictum

the age verification shit is fascists trying to control the internet for everyone. the children part of this is a smokescreen and you shouldn't be falling for it.

Here's some research from Georgia Tech and UC Irvine to bolster this. At best, age verification systems take your data and sell it to third parties, despite their promises of privacy.

Yeah okay ill reblog that

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if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support

it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.

men will say “princess treatment ❤️” and then it’s just how i normally treat the cashier at the store