... Age Verification Checks are not the answer. Giving our personal documents such as passports or driving licenses to random companies can not end well. We're already seeing data breaches and things will only get worse. Now there is talk of stopping the use of VPNs, or... 2/3

#OSA

As with trans people, DEI, gay marriage, immigrants and Islam, the right is obsessed with cataloging imagined societal harms from porn. Which I suspect means them obsessing about it.

Anyway, nice to see them shout out the free speech demons fighting censorship at @fsc.bsky.social.

I think we’re moving to a broken internet model. You have to self-host, everyone good with tech has a blog based on a raspberry pi they run out of their closet, social media communication is extremely moderated, the internet functions like Encarta with heavily moderated comments.

and even the school phone bans are part of the materiel support for genocide

what this means is that we are powerful, and that the empire wants gaza gone no matter the cost. we have to defy their evil attempts to silence us and continue to stand up for what's right

yes, all the age verification crap and whatnot came out of the woodwork the day the youth rejected the mass murder of every man, woman, and child in gaza. the evil empire wants to murder foreigners in peace without us speaking up. that's why we must push back

It IS important on this one to watch out for your mental, it’s really scary and people are going to be saying a lot of contrasting and conflicting things… stick to sources you trust, do what you need to make your voice heard, and don’t doomscroll on this

- A lot of chatters in my stream today were VERY panicked about this bill. It IS scary. If this is a panic attack-inducing proposition to you, my advice is to call your members of Congress (or have a trusted friend / loved one call) and to follow @techdirt.com and maybe otherwise limit exposure

… I can’t tell you fully what it would be like. We have many good predictions and guesses, but it would truly be a brave new world for the web. I’m sure there will be a lot of litigation and use of the judicial system to figure out the landscape of a post-S230 US internet
- Nothing is set in stone

Repeating what I’ve heard from r/PoliticalOptimism and some other posts here, I’m pretty sure KOSA was already in this one, but this is not great for these because this committee is apparently sluggish as hell, and its leader, Cruz, is not only surprisingly anti-censorship, but also has beef with-

The house companion bill has ZERO cosponsors. The outlook for this bill is not great, even if this is a more serious attempt at pushing it.

We should still be vigilant, we should be calling our senators and such, but again, this is an uphill battle for them.

Ron Wyden continues to be the best Senate Democrat on tech issues. Listen to your colleague Senator Ron Wyden. Democrats should oppose S.3546 (the bill to repeal section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934).