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 (DIR) Post #B4FzwKI8gOVbuO0srI by eff@mastodon.social
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       When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
       
 (DIR) Post #B4GAEVpBXbxgQomT8y by RnDanger@infosec.exchange
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       @eff This isn't about kids, it's about creating lists of everything every adult looks at and says online.If it is about the kids then we shouldn't be making a list of them for the pedophile government
       
 (DIR) Post #B4GIzayyyrW9flKEca by Karma_J@mastodon.social
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       @eff https://mastodon.social/@Karma_J/116224375043716483RT: https://mastodon.social/users/Karma_J/statuses/116224375043716483
       
 (DIR) Post #B4GMgoi27YTuYkhNK4 by douglas_silva@mastodon.social
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       @eff I can't get over the fact that Brazil is about to be the first country besides the US to implement this. 🤦‍♂️ It wasn't enough to be one of the first countries to enforce Google's ban on alternative app stores. Apparently, we just like taking in whatever crap comes out of the US.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4GQfCytJ6hL4i4XRI by quixote@mastodon.nz
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       @eff We (those of us for privacy and controlling our own business) would get further, I think, if we simultaneously addressed the concerns of (some of?) the people on the other side.They're desperate to stop the flood of mental sludge choking the web. They're not anti-privacy. But they do provide a socially acceptable screen of "widows and orphans" for the politicos and broligarchs to hide behind.Pointing out the privacy problems is useful. But how about if there's at least one paragraph talking about how to solve the sludge issue?A whistleblower (don't remember his name) said recently that (I think it was) Facebook could do a one-click solution to the problem. But he didn't say what. Somebody here or at EFF probably knows what he meant. So mention it! Explain it. Say why it would or wouldn't work.Mention solutions for pollution that *work with* privacy and own-control. Point out that it's not a fight of either privacy OR crap. If there's a way to have both, point it out.My wild guess is that the way involves broligarchs modifying their damn products. And that the assumption is that's hopeless. So we all talk about something else. Let's not. There has to be a better choice than either drowning in sludge or living in a constant colonoscopy.