Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level

Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m usually left of centre, even a bit more to the left than that.

  But all these liberal places passing these laws… They’re making it difficult not to change teams.

  I don’t watch conservative mouthpieces on YouTube, just the literal reality of these badly thought-of, privacy nightmare laws… All a conservative would have to tell me is they would revert this, and I’d be hard pressed to vote otherwise.

  They’re not getting the memo are they…

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  • greencoil@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What a crazy hypothetical you made up, “left of center”, considering the Republican party was pushing for federal ID verification for online services years before Democrats caught up to speed. Red states brought this up first and resulted in multiple porn sites banning users in those states.

    But yes, online censorship and corporate surveillance is a bipartisan issue in the two party system of fascists. You will not be able to “vote” these issues away.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lol that’s like saying you’d vote in favor of voter suppression laws in exchange for gun rights… yeeaaah no don’t do that lol

    Don’t trust conservatives

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    • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In Canada our cons are dumb, but not brain dead like the US’.

      I don’t want to vote for them.

      But once age verification garbage enters the picture, I become a one-issue voter.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    for starters, democrats are not leftists.

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    • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not American lol

      I’m saying they’re poisoning their own well with garbage like that.

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        again, they are not leftists. if anything they are poisoning the right wing capitalist well for anyone paying actual attention.

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  • Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apparently Louisiana was the first state to really push for this kind of stuff so I seriously doubt conservatives in government would stop pushing stuff like this either.

    It’s one of those things that’s going to be inevitable… It’s always “FoR tHe KiDs” but it’s really about knowing exactly what every citizen is doing at all times so they can come after you for whatever displeases them.

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    • SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just to point out I’m Canadian and regardless of who started it. Saying they’ll vote Republican to avoid this stuff comes from substantial ignorance.

      en.wikipedia.org/…/Social_media_age_verification_…

      The only spin I can see from the right side is they want to be so ass deep into your tech stack that they don’t even have to ask to verify who you are.

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      • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m also Canadian lol. The point I’m making is that if it has me thinking like this, imagine people who were truly on the fence.

        They’re shooting themselves in the foot.

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• jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sorry, but they handed out pamphlets at Davos.

  Well not actually Davis, a more important event that nobody’s heard of.

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