EFF to the rescue.

Fuck age verification

*on the Internet

Everywhere, stuff should have a knowledge or “maturity” test. People age and mature differently, they shouldn’t be limited due to arbitrary distinctions like an age.

Problem with that is different people have different ideas as to what’s “mature enough,” or even “mature” at all.

and since the point is the tracking and not the age at all there’s no reason to even try a maturity test. it’s about your identity, nothing more and nothing less, every single time it’s brought up. If they cared even a shred about kids we’d have universal healthcare so as usual it’s just flat out lies to our face.

Tell that to a girl’s father.

Do… I need to point out why this is a dumb statement?

“She may be 10 but she passed the maturity test!”

“Yes officer, I’m nine, but I passed the maturity test so it’s fine that I’m smoking and drinking.”

Age isn’t a great indicator in all respects, but “maturity” is arbitrary and subjective, and makes no damn sense in so, so many instances.

"You’re very mature for your age"

• some pedo arguing that age is just a number

More like *that empowers the surveillance state.

Honestly, I have nothing against age restricted spaces (within reason). When a bouncer checks your ID at a bar, they historically haven’t been logging that interaction. Its not used to track your movement, reported to your health insurance company, etc…

If you assigned the death penalty to CEOs who store or sell verification information I could maybe be talked into providing my ID to an online company.

As we’ve said time and time again: the internet will always route around censorship.

Of course it will. I don’t understand why Utah thinks they can censor content when countries like North Korea and China demonstrate that a circumvention is always found.

One of the original design considerations for what became the internet was that it should be able to automatically route around outages and allow communications to still get through, even if many of its nodes were taken out by nuclear war.

Finding a way to get around blockages is practically what the internet was designed to do.

Believe me, I’m old enough to know that very well. I’m more flabbergasted that state lawmakers in Utah have the audacity to believe they can accomplish what a totalitarian state can’t.

Have you been to Utah. They started out as a totalitarian state, were forced to integrate, but long to return to their roots.

You’re forgetting one key fact: worldpopulationreview.com/…/mormon-population-by-…

I use VPNs when I’m in China just to download anime, grim.

Aylo’s lawsuit does not challenge SB 73’s provision prohibiting the websites covered by the law from sharing information about VPNs.

Well, somebody should challenge that as well. Seems like a clear-cut 1st amendment violation to me.

I think that’s why it was pointed out.

what movie is this?

This is real life now. But also Idiocracy.

It’s got what plants crave.

Water? Like from the toilet?

I ain’t never seen no plant growing out of no toilet

The last time I checked, no person under the age of 18 can purchase internet access from an ISP. An adult has to enter a contract before a single byte can be transferred across the internet. All the content you see online was put there by an adult, or the responsibility of an adult. The internet itself is already an age gate.

This shit is like a nightclub sueing the government to have the bus driver check id’s

You can find an open Wi-Fi network

Local library

Coffee shop.

FBI surveillance van

But Jesus told them to pass the law.

/s

Omfg just talk to your kids and fucking be a parent. It’s not that hard. Fucking puritanical shitlords.

These laws have nothing to do with children but on paper…