Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

• cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now 4chan becomes the face of my resistance to this shit, and people will think it is only being opposed by a bunch of deplorable incels. It delegitimizes the entire opposition - you can't speak out against it any more without being associated with 4chan and whatever the fuck kiwi farm is.

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  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    whatever the fuck kiwi farm is.

    Nazis.

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  • Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tbh, I don’t know why a push by more left leaning sites hasn’t happened? This would at the very least show the broader unpopularity of the age verification law among pretty much both sides.

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    • seralth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because they have too much shame.

      It takes the shameless to stand for freedom most of the time.

      Which means frequently it’s the worse kinds of people, the loudest and the most shameless. Who start. Others then follow once the ice is broken.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One problem is that quite a lot of left leaning people support this. Certainly in the UK the Labour Party has been paternalistic for a long time, thinking that the public are not able to look after themselves when it comes to having liberties. On issues like this there’s little between labour and Tories, with them swapping places quite frequently.

      We haven’t had a socially liberal government in 70 years at least.

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s a left leaning site that has lots of ‘adult’ or ‘harmful’ content?

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      • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I guess the parts of the fediverse that allows adult content. There's a lot of people on the fediverse dedicated to supporting sex workers and stuff like that. None of these sites or users are in a position to sue the UK though.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, everyone and their dog should jump on this.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wikipedia also sued but lost

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wikipedia’s case was odd. They tried to fight that the act was illegal rather than them being caught by it was wrong (good for them), but did so by arguing that the Minister was uninformed and acted irrationally, which is a non starter.

    The judge said that they can still contest whether they should be caught by the act. It sounded like the judge felt they’d have a decent case.

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