Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.
“Promoting homosexuality” was illegal in state schools for half my childhood. Imagine the ignorant, hateful people arguing against same-sex sexual education - they would probably say “YOU want to show PORN to CHILDREN” too. It’s a bad-faith character assassination that shouldn’t have merit.
Where the hell did I say porn? You think they can’t block anything else?
Also, so what if I did? Shouldn’t that be a parents decision? Say I’m fine with them watching it at 16yo. Shouldn’t that be up to the parent, not the government?
People who give up their freedom to the government are going to lose far more freedom than they’re OK with losing. It starts with something you might agree with, but it never stops there.
That argument suggests you bought the lie of what the age verification is for. When every service is required to perform age verification, it quickly becomes not about porn but control.
They’re trying to close the Pandora’s box that is the internet decades after the fact, and they’re learning the hard way how impossible and unpopular that is
“What if I WANT my kids watching porn???”
Really bold stratagy you got there.
“Promoting homosexuality” was illegal in state schools for half my childhood. Imagine the ignorant, hateful people arguing against same-sex sexual education - they would probably say “YOU want to show PORN to CHILDREN” too. It’s a bad-faith character assassination that shouldn’t have merit.
Where the hell did I say porn? You think they can’t block anything else?
Also, so what if I did? Shouldn’t that be a parents decision? Say I’m fine with them watching it at 16yo. Shouldn’t that be up to the parent, not the government?
People who give up their freedom to the government are going to lose far more freedom than they’re OK with losing. It starts with something you might agree with, but it never stops there.
That argument suggests you bought the lie of what the age verification is for. When every service is required to perform age verification, it quickly becomes not about porn but control.
They’re trying to close the Pandora’s box that is the internet decades after the fact, and they’re learning the hard way how impossible and unpopular that is