Post · bonfire.cafe

Utah is attacking VPNs. California wants to ban social media for minors. Governments across the globe are rushing to "protect the kids" by controlling the internet. We break it all down in our latest EFFector newsletter: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/californias-terrible-no-good-very-bad-social-media-ban-effector-389

Electronic Frontier Foundation

👎 California's Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Social Media Ban | EFFector 38.9

We'd all like the internet to be a better place—for kids and adults alike. But in the name of online safety, governments around the world are racing to impose a dangerous new system of control. Are age gates the silver bullet to the internet's problems they're being promoted as? Or are we being sold a bill of goods?

dckimGUY

@dckim@mastodon.social · 14 hours ago

@eff it might have been a little better to credit the author https://mstdn.social/@axoromero when making the posting of the article. Why not, right?

gbsills

@gbsills@social.vivaldi.net · 15 hours ago

@eff It seems like we are being forced to choose between the social media and porn companies( Meta, Google, TikTok, Uporn, etc...) and governments. I don't like these choices.