@alice

> "But think of the children!"

Well, exactly. I don't want my kid, or any of his peers, living behind a filter that works to skew their world view and hide life-saving information. I don't want their data being collected, monetized, surveiled, and abused. I don't want a surveillance state to be normalized for them.

That's the crazy thing about this - thinking of the children should actually be an argument _against_ these age verification schemes.

@alice I've signed.

I'd also like to point out that as a project @librecast (small as we are, and as early in building as we are) are very much against ID checks. This was a huge factor in closing our matrix room.

https://librecast.net/2025-07-31-matrix-and-linkedin.html

@alice
I really think this is more about power and control. The rise of authoritarianism everywhere is sorta the clue.
They don't want anybody doing or saying anything on the internet without being able to track them down 'just in case'.
They start doing this with the children because it's easy to justify, difficult to argue against, and allows them to begin setting up control measures for future expansion to other sections of the population.