Post B6CZFJvH5ej3dCInya by eff@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B6CZFJvH5ej3dCInya by eff@mastodon.social
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       Governments are selling age verification as a silver bullet for online safety. It's easy to see that we're just being sold a bill of goods. EFF's EFFector Podcast explains why age gates won't fix the internet, and what they'll break: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/californias-terrible-no-good-very-bad-social-media-ban-effector-389
       
 (DIR) Post #B6CdXIfAubVkkmbIuG by gbsills@vivaldi.net
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       @eff The EFF does a good job of describing the pitfalls of age verification tools. It also admits that there are needs for tools like this. Perhaps instead of criticizing the approach taken by California, Australia, and other places, the EFF could propose some alternatives? Surely the EFF isn't saying that we have to simply live with the fact that the Internet is shit.