#e621

"-the act legally requires commercial ventures to verify users’ ages if a company “knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material.”

In order to do so, North Carolina requires these sites to either use “a commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses or governmental entities for the purpose of age and identity verification,” or utilize “another commercially reasonable method of age and identity verification.” Companies are not allowed to hold records on any personally identifying information used to confirm users’ ages.

Additionally, North Carolina offers residents the right to a lawsuit if a site is found to record user identifying information, or if a minor’s parent or guardian finds that a website allowed their child to access a site purposefully hosting material “harmful to minors.”" obviously we don't want these websites having our IDs, but sites like e621 and pornhub just straight up aren't asking for them either- blocking their service to the state in it's entirety instead. even beyond the restriction of adult websites, obviously as the 'queerest place on the net' we can see how "material that is harmful to minors" is not just intentional vague wording, but a massive red flag. even if you dont care about the porn- which you should, this is a massive rights violation. how long until 'harmful material' is expanded to include transgender people? same-sex relationships? anything lgbtq? this is a serious fucking problem and it opens the door to hundreds of potentially worse bills that extrapolate on the same concept.

i have no idea what to do to fight it, but if someone smarter than me could add links to representatives or something, that would be awesome.

Warm up I made today

Please supervise your children online! I am not their babysitter!

Seriously, if parents monitor their kids internet access then the government wouldn't have to censor the internet after years of hating on other countries for doing the same thing. I am an adult and I should be allowed to post whatever legal or social media rule abiding stuff I want on the internet.

The most common way these so called free countries are censoring the internet is by Mandatory Age Verification Laws for Social Media. Basically, you must give websites your ID in order to access them. Some sites like YouTube are even just using AI to guess people's ages online based on account activity and then tell them to give them their ID if they think you are minor to prove that you are not.

Those are legit crazy privacy violations.

Also, if the government won't censor. Credit Card Companies can! Credit Card Companies are now censoring video games more than the government itself.