@violetmadder @anton @glassresistor there is no blame here, only the idea that we are all imperfect and maybe we can work together on that, because it is incredibly difficult, and every single one of us is fighting a hard battle that we cannot see
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»Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.«
Next step, rarely considered – very important to highlight. Thank you!
@Em0nM4stodon Interestingly, so far "age verification" for things that actually shouldn't be accessible to teens like hardcore porn and sites selling vapes is ticking a box
@Em0nM4stodon by far my favourite part is how absurd this list gets and yet how it could be reality in, lets say, 10 years
@Em0nM4stodon The internet was born in small spaces. Niche networks of interconnected interest groups using simple protocols to communicate. Our biggest weapon against this is to empower people to create those networks with their own compute. Our biggest enemy is the push to turn every device into a cloud provider's thin client. We can always resist as long as, in everyone's hands and homes, there is a general purpose, Von Neumann architecture, computational engine.
@Em0nM4stodon saving the children while the Epstein Class is still on the loose. Typical: crimizalize the poor for the richman's crimes.
@Em0nM4stodon The harms of Social Media that they claim to be protecting children from are harmful to *everyone*. Age verification isn’t the answer and just throws petrol on an already huge privacy dumpster fire…
@Em0nM4stodon nodds in agreement
" #AgeVerification" is just yet another #FalsePretense for more #Cyberfascism, #SurveillanceState & #PoliceState!
- Thus it is our moral obligation to not.only #RefuseToComply but teach everyone to circumvent this bs!
- And if that means we gotta "drop off #USB #Flashdrives" with #Tails like Darlene in #MrRobot then so be it!
@Em0nM4stodon THE INTERNET IS RAN BY THE GOVERNMENT, DUDE. No ones banning anyone and your legal identity being tied to a public display name that ISN'T a legal identity is absolutely NOT a danger to the public. You're being EXTREMELY counter productive and making it look like YOU use the internet to harbor fugitives who are banned from use of the internet for BEING dangerous to those groups you just mentioned ON THE INTERNET. People get banned from the public domain when they become offenders.
@Em0nM4stodon If it was illegal for social media companies to use and sell personal details, then the lobby (funded secretly by Meta, Google, Apple) for removal of privacy would evaporate.
Children are not protected by revealing full ID info by everyone, that is a lie.
@Em0nM4stodon ah yes, i also anonymize myself throughout social media to protect my privacy 
@Em0nM4stodon they day I have to provide ID to use your service is the day I cancel, it's pretty simple.
And it doesn't take much to antagonize the current government in the US:
"The ICE agent wanted more than a month’s worth of electronic data, but offered no information as to what, exactly, caught the agency’s attention. When John Doe’s attorneys later reviewed their Reddit posts, they found nothing to suggest criminal activity or intent.
"There was a thread from early January, after news outlets including The Intercept identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Commenting on a Minnesota Star Tribune article, another Reddit user posted that Ross might be welcomed as a hero in Florida or Texas. John Doe responded by sharing that Ross had lived in Chaska, Minnesota; grew up in Indiana; and served in the Indiana National Guard — biographical details that were circulating widely at the time. “Hopefully he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary,” they wrote.
"In another post, a Reddit user asked what they should write on an anti-ICE protest sign. John Doe suggested the lyrics to a song: “Urine speaks louder than words.” In a third instance, Doe wrote, “TSA sucks and we all know it.” According to the Reddit user’s attorneys, these were the most aggressive posts they could find."
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/
@Em0nM4stodon if they cared about the well-being of children and developmental problems with being exposed to the the internet they'd be talking about different thing.
You'd want to make the internet less addictive and dangerous, by limiting ad-tracking and algorithmic systems the incentivize mass data harvesting. Force public-facing spaces to effectively moderate to keep from being dangerous to children.
You'd want to make the material environment more hospitable to doing anything other than sitting inside on a computer all day. Limiting cars so it's safe to be outside, promoting public parks, social programs and child-friendly public events.
You'd want to make the internet less addictive and dangerous, by limiting ad-tracking and algorithmic systems the incentivize mass data harvesting. Force public-facing spaces to effectively moderate to keep from being dangerous to children.
You'd want to make the material environment more hospitable to doing anything other than sitting inside on a computer all day. Limiting cars so it's safe to be outside, promoting public parks, social programs and child-friendly public events.
@anton @Em0nM4stodon ok but what about our complicity here? Everyone wants “free” services that they don’t have to pay for. What is the actual price for that?
@codinghorror @Em0nM4stodon The problems of algorithmic tracking and individual micro-targeting are distinct and much more pernicious than the problems of ad-supported media in general
Long term the project of 99finches is to convince local businesses in Iowa to advertise here instead of on platforms that have been proven in open court to have screwed over their business clients on ad purchases. Then use that revenue to pay people in Iowa to do the long-term work needed to make the Fediverse a serious threat to big tech.
Long term the project of 99finches is to convince local businesses in Iowa to advertise here instead of on platforms that have been proven in open court to have screwed over their business clients on ad purchases. Then use that revenue to pay people in Iowa to do the long-term work needed to make the Fediverse a serious threat to big tech.
@anton @Em0nM4stodon I like this plan a lot.
@codinghorror @anton @Em0nM4stodon
What about it? The moral injury of getting roped into being "complicit" in our own oppression is just one more way they damage us and try to convince us we somehow brought this bullshit on ourselves.
Imagine, for a moment, a world where people could easily get their basic needs met. If disposable income was an actual thing, people would not be in nearly such a hurry to jump for the dangerously predatory "free" shit on offer from the people who helped make sure we're poor in the first place.
@violetmadder @codinghorror @anton @Em0nM4stodon and frankly "people only want free stuff" was never true.
people were always willing to pay a reasonable price for media or software. its just always been priced as a luxury to maximize profits for middlemen. also the shift to free wasnt consumer or creator driven but seller driven as the growth over profits practice is how we got here.
@Em0nM4stodon It is not a bug, It is a feature.
