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Tuta
Tuta
@Tutanota@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity


First they came for Adult sites
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in Adult sites
Then they came for Social Media
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in Social Media
Then they came for the VPNs
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in VPNs
Then they came for chat apps
And I did not speak out
Because I was not  interested in chat apps
Then they locked the whole web behind ID verification
And there was no one left
To speak up against this
First they came for Adult sites And I did not speak out Because I was not interested in Adult sites Then they came for Social Media And I did not speak out Because I was not interested in Social Media Then they came for the VPNs And I did not speak out Because I was not interested in VPNs Then they came for chat apps And I did not speak out Because I was not  interested in chat apps Then they locked the whole web behind ID verification And there was no one left To speak up against this
First they came for Adult sites And I did not speak out Because I was not interested in Adult sites Then they came for Social Media And I did not speak out Because I was not interested in Social Media Then they came for the VPNs And I did not speak out Because I was not interested in VPNs Then they came for chat apps And I did not speak out Because I was not  interested in chat apps Then they locked the whole web behind ID verification And there was no one left To speak up against this
Tuta

Age Verification: What countries require you to perform ID checks & for what websites and platforms? | Tuta

Will the age verification era kill anonymity? As more countries are passing age verification laws, let's take a look at what countries already require it, and for what services, online sites,and social media platforms.
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BallisticPunk
BallisticPunk
@Imgoneinpeace@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 22 hours ago

@Tutanota I can't say what I think without being blocked. There is no freedom to speak unless you are a fascist.

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iredave
iredave
@iredave@theforkiverse.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 23 hours ago

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Peter Brown
Peter Brown
@peterbrown@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota age verification is not for the teenagers. It’s for the adults. The presumption is you are a teenager unless you can prove otherwise, so basically all Internet users will have to register..

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@hobbs@dobbs.town replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota i'm tired, boss.

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@tonanio@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota The reality is that to fight disinformation, misingotmation and scams, only ID verification will work IF and it's a big if, cannot be controlled by governments and corporations, plus the "fake accounts" and bot farms are locked out of Internet, especially social media.
And it ain't going to be good if governments take the lead on developing the solutions.

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@GOKUSHRM@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota I'm happy.. I'll start using simple phone or smartphone with minimum services or apps with custom rom.. ☺️😊Atleast it ll give me full time to hangout with my people locally

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@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota The thing that annoys me most about all of that is this: They already have my ID.

My ISP, as in the Internet Service Provider that Provides me with the Service of having access to Internet, already required my ID to sign up.

I only have any access to the internet in the first place because I already gave them my ID.

There is absolutely no need for me to hand out my ID to everyone like candy at a halloween party and have one of them leak it because that's five dozen attack vectors.

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Christiaan Jacobs
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@cejjacobs@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota the other day reporting on Roblox (game platform) some people were happy that the platform added age verification by scanning a photo. So voluntarily having children giving their pictures for facial recognition… (the kids were unimpressed. One 12 years old was identified as 16-17, another claimed to have shown a random photo of an adult)

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@iredave@theforkiverse.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota The new #searchengine pod is excellent!

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@burnoutqueen@todon.nl replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota we need to bring back the old school Internet. Bring back Gopher

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nocci [cyberpunk'd]
nocci [cyberpunk'd]
@nocci@punk.cyber77.de replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota@mastodon.social

Folks... I don't know who was responsible for the Martin Niemöller allegory.

That's really inappropriate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

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Tuta
Tuta
@Tutanota@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@nocci Thank you very much for your feedback and for sharing your stance on this. We agree that this poem could be misinterpreted in such a way, and that is definitely not something we intended. However, in the English-speaking world it is commonly used today to speak up against increasing surveillance tendencies, and that's what we are doing here. We are sorry if this did not come across clear enough and will review future posts more critically.

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Toni Massari
Toni Massari
@ToniMassari@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota Hurrah!! Excellent news!! I don’t want young men inducted into pornography and sexual abuse of minors! And I don't want young women inducted into the belief that that kind of abuse is normal! I would like to see high costs for ALL pornography, and the obligation to REGISTER to allow Authorities to verify whether a registered user is guilty of sexual criminal behaviour and abuse!
Maybe YOU like it, and maybe YOU like little children being targeted, but most of us do NOT!

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D4v
D4v
@d4v@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota, wow! I’ll instantly delete anything requesting my ID. If you need my verification, please do it through government apps and don’t share my ID with anyone. Something where only a flag like “adult: yes/no” will be exchanged with third parties.

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@Kierkegaanks@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota it’s not about age though, is it? It’s about total stasi surveillance

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endolexi
@endolexi@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota tbh, if there was a method that provides age verification *without* ID being stored and connected to activity, I wouldn't be opposed to it. "age-verified, user is at least xyz years old" needs to be nothing more than a flag containing exactly that information, no more.

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@oatrapado@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota we are ready to take hands back on old nokias xD

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Human after all
Human after all
@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota As if you don't do it too

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@superboom12s@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Tutanota

Sadly, lots of people online think this is for the good and important to protect children...

Like if the fact that some parents doesn't want to take care of their children is enough to force everyone to be monitored...

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