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[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Literally everyone with half a brain said that this was bound to happen, if online ID verification laws were enacted. The only thing that is surprising to me is that it only took ~60 days.

But the bourgeois governments don't care about peoples' privacy. They only saw the money to be made with verification companies and the deanonymizing effect on the internet. On the user this only has chilling effects and makes it more simple to censor information on the internet by labeling it 18+