I'm seeing openness to age verification laws within some left of center organizing spaces 😱

[robin@social.riley.pub]

I'm seeing openness to age verification laws within some left of center organizing spaces

Folks, we gotta talk to our people to kill this harmful policy. Regulate dangerous big tech practices, not people!

LGBTQ+ kids in hostile environments suffer when they can't access community online.

Age verification also facilitates excluding representation of marginalized folks. Also, it is at odds with the right to repair — shouldn't we own our devices, and not the other way around?

[frisk@woof.tech]

@robin It's unfortunate how age verification craze has captured even our closest allies.

Locally in Poland, a long existing organization fighting for freedom and privacy in digital space came to be very empathetic to the idea of age verification, arguing that age verification on service provider's side IS the regulation of Big Tech we need to protect minors.

It's truthfully disheartening to see something like this, considering the threat those regulations pose to freedom and privacy of all Internet users.

I don't believe a lot of creatures in those organizations mean anything bad, but I think they underestimate the harm those regulations bring.

All of us want Internet to be safer for children and ourselves. But this is not the way to achieve this.

[tankgrrl@hachyderm.io]

@robin And it's ultimately just used as more Surveillance State tactics.

[maidservantofnanaya@social.translunar.academy]

@robin Also it just enables the surveillance state!

[rapsneezy@mastodon.social]

@robin

I'm genuinely surprised by this, given the natural mistrust of large corporations from the left.

Is it the old "parental state" idea that resonates?

If so, that is a blindness that leftists need to grow to out of.

*both* big government and big corporations are a threat to social democratic justice. Any concentration of power is.

[ravenonthill@mastodon.social]

@rapsneezy @robin A lot of these people, it's not that they're opposed to authority, they just want to be the authority.

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@robin it is also a very real threat to privacy and abuse of data.