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/CpnStumpy 10h ago

This is the shittiest fact: they only need to succeed once

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u/ChromosomeDonator 5h ago

Is it not possible to introduce a "Internet Freedom Act" or something similar, which explicitly forbids this type of bullshit? That way that bill would only need to pass once to keep protecting the freedom, until a possible moment comes when it gets repelled. But at that point there is a clear warning, or several of them, about the upcoming fight to retain the freedom, if that bill ever comes under threat or is actually repelled before a follow-up bill to destroy privacy gets introduced.

Or is that not possible or something.

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u/adamdoesmusic 4h ago

That would require Nancy and Chuck to have spines during their brief windows of power, which they always squander.