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Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 week ago by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 week ago

We gotta stop this shit

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is this being posted to Linux? Wouldn't !privacy@programming.dev be more appropriate?

[–] anzo@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Indeed, I am locking the thread for it's offtopic. We had already a lot of discussion with systemd accomodating to this law. To OP: feel free to crosspost.