🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable.
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Age verification seems to be unstoppable. Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity@Tutanota not every country uses Id or face checks. They use zero knowledge proof. Which at least doesn't give any data
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@wadavxx @dick_turpin @Tutanota They had to defeat our laws first. Had to convince people that they need to be tracked. 20 years ago nobody would have put up with this shit. Not to this extreme. They had to go slow.
@crazyeddie They had help, and they get help every day. Every time you see someone on the Fediverse saying, for example, "We need protecting from right-wing influencers!" that's the coattails governments ride on. "Ooh, they want protection! Let's implement a check system, for their own protection, of course."
Every news report you see where someone was encouraged or driven to commit suicide or self-harm, governments use that as justification to lock the web down.
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Age verification seems to be unstoppable.
Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymityppl start arguing, thn run away.. Wow
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Age verification seems to be unstoppable.
Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymityBrazil has passed law not only to require age checks for social media, but also for operating systems.
The Digital Statute of Children and Adolescents (ECA Digital - Law No. 15211/2025) is regulated by Decree 12880/2026, clearing stating in the Article 2 (IV to VII) and the Article 15.
https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2023-2026/2026/Decreto/D12880.htm
In the USA, H.R. 8250 requires operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/text
Strange world we live on...
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Brazil has passed law not only to require age checks for social media, but also for operating systems.
The Digital Statute of Children and Adolescents (ECA Digital - Law No. 15211/2025) is regulated by Decree 12880/2026, clearing stating in the Article 2 (IV to VII) and the Article 15.
https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2023-2026/2026/Decreto/D12880.htm
In the USA, H.R. 8250 requires operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/text
Strange world we live on...
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Sorry, Mum, I can't vacuum my room. That new Dyson is running some kind of Windows and it says I'm too young.
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Age verification seems to be unstoppable.
Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity@Tutanota@mastodon.social Brazil isn't a democracy. Australia had a tendency of censorship for several years now from what I followed so I wonder how far off it had been. And not familiar with Greece to comment on them.
Saying it's unstoppable normalizes in the mind of the people the problem for when it does come, a strategy used to exhaustion in Brazil so people don't push back.
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Sorry, Mum, I can't vacuum my room. That new Dyson is running some kind of Windows and it says I'm too young.
A brazilian bureaucrat once said it would be wonderful having a digital money at the time of Covid-19 pandemic - Drex - making possible to government restrict where a person could spend his money (english subtitles available in YouTube).
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Age verification seems to be unstoppable.
Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity@Tutanota The fact that no one switch to another platform is disappointing.
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Age verification seems to be unstoppable.
Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymityDAMMIT, Lula
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Age verification seems to be unstoppable.
Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymityI can see both sides of this. Social media sites that don't moderate their content should be prohibited for younger users. But at the same time, "papers please" is a terrible approach.
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Age verification seems to be unstoppable.
Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity@Tutanota Age verification will never be a good option to protect minors online.
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Age verification seems to be unstoppable.
Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity -
At the end of the day, we found China and Russia are pioneers...
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