xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@djsumdog Not giving your data to companies is still no use. You have no control over what people say about you online. Unless you are like Richard Stallman and request that your photos not be posted on Facebook, you probably have a bunch of photos of you already on it.

I know that the governments pushing these age verification laws are just using the well-being of children as a smokescreen, but for anyone who does think that the need to government to protect their children from porn, let me have a word with you:

Yes, it's your responsibility what your children do on the Internet. I don't buy this counterargument that your children will always be more tech savvy than you. Just look at Gen Alpha and how most of them can't even navigate a file system. Do you really think they can bypass firewalls if they can't understand how directories work?

You may think that children will find a way, but there are plenty of tutorials online on how to keep up with the latest security trends. Also, your kids won't be able to hack whatever security you have if you block the sites that give tutorials on bypassing such security measures.

If you are truly paranoid about what your kids do on the Internet or on the computer in general, either don't let them use a computer or electronic devices at all or set up their devices for them. There are custom USB-bootable Linux distros out there with parental controls in mind. You can even buy them from some websites so you don't need to know how to make bootable drives yourself. They only allow kids to use whitelisted sites and programs. Don't give your kids accounts on your computers and then they will have no choice but to use those flash drives. Whitelisting (i.e blacklisting everything except for a few approved sites) is the only guaranteed way to keep your kids safe online (outside prohibiting them from using the Internet at all, of course).

@Dude This is literally what the WEF was proposing just a few years ago, only rebranded to make it appeal more to conservatives.

@Beefki @rlier23 @All_bonesJones Civil disobedience has been shown to work. For example, there was a UK poll tax back in 1989 that ended because enough people refused to pay it. A lot of people did end up in jail, but they couldn't arrest everyone so they had to end it by 1990.

@kerosene They can ban Tor as well. All they need to do is force ISPs to monitor evidence of Tor traffic via DSP and shut off anyone whose traffic shows patterns of Tor (or any other anonymity network) usage.

@Beefki @rlier23 @All_bonesJones
>the implicit threat of violence
Not necessarily that, but the threat to not comply with whatever law they're passing.