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When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information (www.eff.org)
submitted 3 days ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

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[–] 125 points 3 days ago (12 children)

I really wish people would stop weaponizing children to encroach on everyone’s privacy.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 days ago (10 children)

    Fuck them kids

    (Not literally)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    This brand of edgy humor is so weird. The children aren't legislating your rights away, they're having their rights encroached on right along with you, by the Epstein class no less, a band of ghouls that have proven to be waaay more dangerous to children than adults

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (3 children)

    Hot take: having children makes most people worse people.

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