Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all?
Read the fucking article. The EFF is not talking about tax laws but freedom of association without government identification. I was merely using the UK’s tax law definition of “social media” to demonstrate how easy it is to establish an overly broad definition of something either accidentally or maliciously.
Do you want a free internet where people can associate without the government’s permission? Or are you privileged enough that you’ve never had to worry about your rights and privileges?
EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Age verification technology itself is often inaccurate and privacy-invasive, and as more countries considering implementing ID-based checks, the risks move beyond censorship and surveillance toward excluding some people entirely.
From the fucking article, since you won’t read it, you philistine.
Read the fucking article. The EFF is not talking about tax laws but freedom of association without government identification. I was merely using the UK’s tax law definition of “social media” to demonstrate how easy it is to establish an overly broad definition of something either accidentally or maliciously.
Do you want a free internet where people can associate without the government’s permission? Or are you privileged enough that you’ve never had to worry about your rights and privileges?
From the fucking article, since you won’t read it, you philistine.