<![CDATA[🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable.]]>🚨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 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

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/bdb781dc-b6ea-4f1c-a2eb-807ea56fcc5e/age-verification-seems-to-be-unstoppable.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:07:52 GMTTue, 21 Apr 2026 12:55:10 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:58:05 GMT]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metapixl.com/p/Ibi/953532589693607112https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metapixl.com/p/Ibi/953532589693607112Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:58:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:24:00 GMT]]>@Tutanota

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa3-TkHBh90

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gustavo_rezende/statuses/116445507780750920https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gustavo_rezende/statuses/116445507780750920Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:24:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:14:03 GMT]]>@Tutanota Age verification will never be a good option to protect minors online.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116425783198946327/statuses/116444760861878501https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116425783198946327/statuses/116444760861878501Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:14:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:14:09 GMT]]>@Tutanota

I 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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116251962971560634/statuses/116444053458811117https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116251962971560634/statuses/116444053458811117Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:14:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:09:12 GMT]]>@Tutanota

DAMMIT, Lula🇧🇷 !!!!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/ap/users/116374986150724146/statuses/116443562135122729https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/ap/users/116374986150724146/statuses/116443562135122729Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:09:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:39:23 GMT]]>@Tutanota The fact that no one switch to another platform is disappointing.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://layer8.space/ap/users/116231065725993258/statuses/116443444874168054https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://layer8.space/ap/users/116231065725993258/statuses/116443444874168054Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:39:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:19:41 GMT]]>@zeitverschreib @Tutanota

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).

https://youtu.be/dQ4RynCrvKA?si=hR3q2Z_-d0n9EEQX&t=517

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gustavo_rezende/statuses/116443367427747726https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gustavo_rezende/statuses/116443367427747726Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:19:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:00:26 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thebrainbin.org/m/random/p/623449/-/reply/528991https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thebrainbin.org/m/random/p/623449/-/reply/528991Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:00:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:00:26 GMT]]>@gustavo_rezende

Sorry, Mum, I can't vacuum my room. That new Dyson is running some kind of Windows and it says I'm too young.

@Tutanota

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freundica.de/objects/3dbc7301-1369-e791-0ad7-a14253573741https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freundica.de/objects/3dbc7301-1369-e791-0ad7-a14253573741Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:00:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:52:20 GMT]]>@Tutanota

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.

Just a moment...

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(www.congress.gov)

Strange world we live on...

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gustavo_rezende/statuses/116443259900509758https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gustavo_rezende/statuses/116443259900509758Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:52:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:43:33 GMT]]>ppl start arguing, thn run away.. Wow

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116443225331220905https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116443225331220905Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:43:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:33:31 GMT]]>@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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@wadavxx @Tutanota

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.org.uk/users/dick_turpin/statuses/116443185887216033https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.org.uk/users/dick_turpin/statuses/116443185887216033Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:33:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:25:02 GMT]]>@Tutanota not every country uses Id or face checks. They use zero knowledge proof. Which at least doesn't give any data

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/lefteristrip23/statuses/116443152517998983https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/lefteristrip23/statuses/116443152517998983Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:25:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:19:46 GMT]]>@GOKUSHRM @Tutanota

Cool. I do not care that you have a lot of money.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/angiebaby/statuses/116443131806473362https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/angiebaby/statuses/116443131806473362Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:19:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:19:01 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/116443128903213248https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/116443128903213248Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:19:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:12:16 GMT]]>@angiebaby @Tutanota it's ur POV, not everyone's . I'm also rich & still against big tech and the current system running in world. But i still don't hate every person just because they are rich or poor .. As I said not every rich person is bad or corrupt..

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116443102315252114https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116443102315252114Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:12:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:04:23 GMT]]>@Tutanota I agree with most points in this post, but the privacy section seems slightly incomplete to me. Using identity wallets which use zero knowledge proofs (e.g. @yivi_privacybydesign), proving ‘being over 16’ can be done without one’s ID or any other PIID with a central server.

The point of being limited to governmental ID holders still mostly holds up though (although it shifts to e.g. EUDI wallet holders, which happen to not necessarily use zero knowledge proofs)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freeradical.zone/users/floris/statuses/116443071369463200https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freeradical.zone/users/floris/statuses/116443071369463200Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:04:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:02:10 GMT]]>@Tutanota

“Online safety” meaning surveillance, AI criminals promising various bullshit scams that will be used as a cover for building the private sector police state, mass identity theft when the verification is inevitably outsourced to a lowest bidder tech firm that still is wildly overpriced and wastes all the money, and then the use of the whole thing against everyone who isn’t a rich white insane Christian technofascist.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/GrittyLipids/statuses/116443062616658278https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/GrittyLipids/statuses/116443062616658278Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:02:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:54:20 GMT]]>@GOKUSHRM @Tutanota

You are still holding out faith in the humanity of those who already hoard more money than they can possibly spend in a lifetime while people are starving.

Billionaires do not see you as a human being.

They see you as an obstacle.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/angiebaby/statuses/116443031806490378https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/angiebaby/statuses/116443031806490378Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:54:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:51:08 GMT]]>@dick_turpin @Tutanota Striking while people are distracted.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hippodon.com/users/sraars/statuses/116443019262200310https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hippodon.com/users/sraars/statuses/116443019262200310Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:51:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:44:05 GMT]]>@angiebaby @Tutanota only corrupt people are terrified, not the billionaire. Because not every rich person is corrupted

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116442991497750551https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116442991497750551Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:44:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:41:40 GMT]]>@Tutanota

The billionaires are terrified of us.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/angiebaby/statuses/116442981991062139https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/angiebaby/statuses/116442981991062139Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:41:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:39:34 GMT]]>@tennoseremel @Tutanota I'll delete every single browser and app if this age verification will come in my country

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116442973736367408https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116442973736367408Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:39:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:35:26 GMT]]>@Tutanota

Privacy & anonymity protect…

…everyone.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.skobk.in/users/tennoseremel/statuses/01KPR41G5R8Q6FSSKCDRS97ZTBhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.skobk.in/users/tennoseremel/statuses/01KPR41G5R8Q6FSSKCDRS97ZTBTue, 21 Apr 2026 13:35:26 GMT