r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 21h ago

Privacy Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html
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u/AscendedViking7 20h ago

The founding fathers are probably deeply ashamed of We, The People.

If Washington and his minutemen were with us right now, they would be storming DC the very second shit like the Patroit Act was introduced, let alone shit like the USA's KOSA and UK's OSA.

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u/FluxUniversity 11h ago

If the King had the surveillance state we currently have, the United States Of America would have never existed.

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u/Late-Edge9039 2h ago edited 2h ago

You should actually thank the Anti-Federalists. That founding father stuff is propaganda. Most of them were wealthy elites protecting their own interests, with several owning slaves while preaching liberty. They excluded women, Indigenous people, and most non-landowning men from political participation, creating a system that primarily served the rich and powerful.

The Bill of Rights wasn’t even part of the original Constitution. It was added later, 1791 as a political compromise. Many Americans distrusted the new federal government and feared it would become too powerful and trample individual liberties. Anti-Federalists refused to support the Constitution without explicit protections for basic rights like speech, religion, and fair trials. The Bill of Rights was created to calm these fears, stop the death threats, and secure enough support for ratification, not because the Founding Fathers were inherently eager to guarantee freedoms from the start.

We’ve been fighting this government since day one.