We must fight age verification with all we have

#AgeVerification laws exploit the moral panic over social media and mental health to repackage old censorship tactics under the guise of protecting children.

'I’ve been talking a lot over the past couple weeks about what an unmitigated disaster the rollout of identity verification has been in the U.K. I wrote a whole piece about it for The Guardian and a story about how these “child safety” crackdowns are a gift to big tech in Zeteo.

The UK’s rollout shows how #digitalID systems lead to mass censorship. They serve those in power, harm human rights, and we have to do everything we can to fight their expansion in the U.S.

Today, I’m excited to present a guest post by Cynthia Conti-Cook, Rebecca Williams, and Pratika Katiya. These three women are doing incredible work fighting back against the surveillance state....'

https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

#Tech #Technology #AI #UK #EU #Surveillance #Privacy #Data

Die Nutzung ist also sehr einfach, auch wenn es Anfangs vielleicht etwas neu und kompliziert wirkt. RSS als alte #Technologie neu zu entdecken löst sicherlich nicht alle Probleme der #Medien|landschaft, zumindest kann es aber dabei helfen, sich von der Einflussnahme und der Lenkungsmacht monopolistischer #Tech-Giganten zu lösen ✊

▶️ Mehr dazu in unserem #Blog unter: https://www.vioffice.de/de/blog/social-news/ 🇩🇪🇬🇧

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