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   Mx. Riley (robin@social.riley.pub)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 03:01:23 JST Mx. Riley

   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?

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     Frisk (frisk@woof.tech)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 03:01:41 JST Frisk

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     @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.