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Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control (www.eff.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40170883

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

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[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sure thing pal.

It's a real shame Bell Labs started this slippery slope with gecos half a century ago. Slippery indeed.