Once you realize it’s not “age verification”, it’s actually “identity verification”, then it’s easy to understand that the real goal is “papers, please” for the entire internet.
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@mhoye Why is it so difficult for parents to protect the cellphone they are paying the bill for?
@fluffykittycat @mhoye highlighting the deadly consequences of addictive exploitative social media is great, now parents still a have to act as parents to reinforce those are not available on children's devices.
Have you seen the Australian digital detox camps for children?
@fluffykittycat @mhoye
Kids hoping their parents hadn't given them a smartphone at age 11
@fluffykittycat @mhoye kids speaking about their addiction. About not being able to communicate with the friends sitting in the same park without texting
@mhoye there are other technical ways to do only and just age veification that have been so carefully avoided that at this point it's fair to say it's entirely on purpose and that the goal is "papers, please".
@mhoye@cosocial.ca Entire internet? You probably mean just the corpo internet. We're safe here from this bullshit on the fediverse, for example.
@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo @mhoye@cosocial.ca We're only safe because they haven't gone after us yet.
@flesh @SuperDicq @mhoye we have to start preparing for their attacks.
@flesh@transfem.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca I'd like to believe that decentralized communication is by nature already resistant to things like this.
@SuperDicq @flesh @mhoye The feds figured out where the admin of a certain server (kolektiva) lived, raided their house, and seized their hard drives. This was a few years back.
Fedi is not immune from these kind of shennanigans
@MisuseCase @SuperDicq @flesh @mhoye it, they did have to raid someone's house. That's harder than compliance In advance
@mhoye@cosocial.ca If there was a real need for age verification, it should be implemented on alcohol selling website, bet websites, and so on. Age verification is just disguised censorship.
@mhoye the "goal" of a system is what it does. no matter what the actual intent was.
@mhoye Unpopular opinion:
Identity verification isn't so unattractive in 2026 — social media is destroying democracies via anonymous armies of bot people steered by aggressive foreign actors like Putin and Musk.
The libertarian model that the Internet was built on is failing societies.
@txtx @mhoye Rightfully unpopular. This is not a libertarian position but an anarchist and antifascist one. It's not Ayn Rand bros who are harmed by needing to show ID to participate in public life. It's queer youth, undocumented folks, unhoused folks, dissidents, ppl living under regimes that don't want them having international contacts, etc. who this shit harms.
big tech creates poison social media to trap kids and ends up killing some
instead of going after the sociopath perps, let's keep kids from the friendships and information they have been finding, and make everyone prove their identities, no matter how that might hurt them