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Age Verification is Now Mutating into General ID (www.freezenet.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Surveillance creep is once again striking in the age verification debate. This is happening at the FCC this time.

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm not defending this shit, I'm of course against it, but a true freedom of speech means you should not need to worry about hiding your identity when saying what you think. The law supposed to protect you from any repercussions from the government.

The fact that we do, means that perhaps freedom of speech was taken from us much earlier than that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Quite right, there's a scale of freedom of speech and the world is sliding down. The independent media, like newspapers with real journalists went first to the media barons like Murdoch, then we got the internet and some independence returned, along with an anonymous voice for the masses, then facebook et.al. corrupted that independence and controlled the voice with algorithms and network effects, and now this. All downhill.

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