Lisa Marie is tired 😴

My account is no longer RUDE 👍

I have mixed feelings

Sending hugs and good vibes your way!!!!!

The poetry of servitude to tech oligarchs

He was also getting harassed a lot, like there was this guy who would follow him around while canvasing and destroy his signs

Tons of fake police reports about him "trying to run people over" while canvasing

All that paired with no real support from the dems...

He was teh GOAT of WV for a while, but he got like 0 backing from the party

A true "progressive mind, in a MAGA body" if you will 🤣

Iranian Kurdish Forces Say They May Enter Iran. Who Are the Kurds? Spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, the ethnic group of 40 million has long sought, and fought for, greater autonomy

Oh OH! I can answer this one!

They are a group of CIA funded terroists who have been promised they can create israel 2.0 on stolen land to build a ethnostate/country that as not existed for 1000s of years

The only problem is the CIA always pulls the rug out from under them when their use is over

I swear to God windows is going to cause global adoption of Linux

Age verification laws are coming

From almost all political parties world wide 😭

Indeed

Also what we need more of is sexual health education

Kids are going to seek out things adults dont want them to look at anyways, they have since the dawn of time

What we dont need is to some how think we need to "enforce" this puritanical anti-porn crap with laws

There is no world where I trust a government to decide what is and is not pornographic

In West Virginia it is considered pornographic for a trans person to talk to on a school campus

There is no world where we can allow such laws to exist

They will be abused, we cannot open the door

Its a good conversation

I just fear that people will accept this new world we're heading into

A world where age verification is common place, and privacy and freedom of expression are wiped away

Just look at how the UK is using their online age verification laws? and the chilling impact it has

And yet it can still be used for CENSORSHIP which will impact MARGINALIZED GROUPS

I don't care what "cool things we can do with tech" - when this tech is going to be used to oppress and censor queer people

In the name of "protecting the children" - it will be used to wipe our existence away

Age Verification Threats Across the Globe: 2025 in Review Age verification mandates won't magically keep young people safer online, but that has not stopped governments around the world spending 2025 implementing or attempting to introduce legislation requir...

Even if this type of key signing can be used to keep some level of privacy (which one day could be broken)

It still does not address the BIG PROBLEM with this type of age verification: USING IT FOR MASS CENSORSHIP

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Nothing you've said changes how dangerous using this for age verification is

Do really want to live in a world where this technology is used to gate entire parts of the internet from people?

Where it will be required to even see that LGBTQ+ content exists? Nothing you've said addresses CENSORSHIP

I'm well aware, you're explaining this to someone who has spent their entire career working with software freedom and privacy NGOs and projects

Not to be "that girl" but you're explaining basic things to someone who has worked in this field her entire life, its kind of condescending

I 100% do, and think this is a horribly dangerous idea to use for age verification

TL;DR - We dont need to solve drinking age and age verification issues with tech that will melt privacy and be used to gate marginalized groups from existing online

All this age gating crap needs to die, we dont need it - it solves problems have already been solved

We dont need it, we dont want it

I should also point out that countries that have lower drinking ages (like 16) have much less youth drinking issues

Why? Because its not stigmatized as some sort of "forbidden fruit" - countries with more realistic drinking ages have a healthier relationship with drinking in general

Age gating things so high to ages like 21 is a pure part of a christian fascist world view we've been brainwashed with

18 is the age you can fight and die for the USA, and kill random arab people for the crime of existing

But 21 is the age to drink a beer? Why?

No to ALL age identification tech

We dont have to solve every problem with policy or tech

I think its fine that people even children can access a free internet

I dont care if kids go out and get fake IDs more power to them

Its not a problem we need to solve

In fact in most parts of the world the drinking age is much younger

The reality is this type of tech will be used to age gate the internet, queer spaces, knowledge of LGBTQIA+ people existing behind these "signing keys"

It will be a dystopic hell hole, and I personally will fight with every fiber of my body to stop this kinda stuff

I'm sorry but I just don't want any of this tech

I dont want a signing key that says i'm over 21 that can be tied back to me

I dont want this kinda stuff at all, I want it to burn in hell

I don't want to live in a world where this tech exists, and I weep for our children if we build it

The Atlantic is a neo-conservative rag, change my mind

Im going to imagine they enforce this by having law suits, or just letting citizens who have been "harmed" (IE: Logged into a computer with out being asked age) to just sue random groups of open source maintainers

While the law is not enforceable, this is the direction we are moving in sadly

We all laughed at Hilary Clinton for her idea of online drivers licenses required by your ISP

But its coming sooner than you think

Apple is per-complying for all users world wide in the next iOS

Unless we mobilze and boycott these tech firms, they will melt online privacy and rebuild the internet as an anti privacy hellscape

Are you implying people who live in Iran dont love death and destruction of their loved ones??!!

The people on TV said they are celebrating the bombs!

Someone is lying, but who???!!!!???!?!

Today in Iran…

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you made me choke on my coffee