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I am so sick of this fascism wrapped in the language of child protectionism. This is only about going after dissenting voices who use the shield of anonymity to speak freely. The persecution of people defending Gaza vocally is proof of that.
At least "protect the children" is a meme now. Lotta people aren't buying it.
Doesn't matter whether people buy it when their views have no effect on government policy. It seems many governments are simultaneously deciding to require ID to use the internet, and you have to suspect it's coordinated.
I think we neee to protest, but we also need to work hard to set up more robust ways to use at least the non-corporate web anonymously. If it's left to governments we'll get to the point where only licensed corporate publishers are allowed to run a website and only licensed users can access it.
After they used the same line about jazz, rock and roll, Dungeons and Dragons, video games...
Yeah, remembering the hilarious ban of Postal 2
Link? Wouldn't that be illegal?
Australia banned it for a while.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/223470/POSTAL_2/
Next step, it'll be the Roman Catholic Church that will be protected, and Israelies who kvetch about the Gaza stuff would be nothing, my producer seems to think think, in the future when there's a mass exodus that occurs from the Roman Catholic Church.
It objectively harms children
Oh wow I had no idea, thank you for informing me. I believe you with no proof.
Edit: I made this comment with the belief that by "it" they meant "a free internet"
sure, but chill
Why should we? People need to start feeling dumb for buying into this nonsense, because they are.
because their objective in doing this is surveillance, not really to "protect children". the entire point is moot anyway, and we shouldn't spend our anger at each other.
(and i'd argue blanket age-gating stuff like wikipedia is probably harmful for children, yea)