As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe” for young people to access, and forcing online services to remove and block anything that may be...

As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe” for young people to access, and forcing online services to remove and block anything that may be deemed “unsafe.”

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    It was never really about kids accessing porn though, so they don’t really care about stuff like this.

    It’s about being perceived to be doing something about kids accessing porn, and setting up a system that makes the internet easier for government to control and gatekeep