https://piefed.ca/u/Sunshine posted on Mar 3, 2026 09:28
Thanks, honestly I had not actually read the bill before coming here to shitpost, and it seems like yeah it’s more well-intentioned than people are giving it credit for.
I still have serious reservations about the broadness, vagueness, and premise that mandatory age signals are a good idea at all – it’s a lateral move at best; weakly attempting to curb the most overtly predatory parts of the whole “age verification” movement, without opposing the idea itself.
But you’re right, it’s not the blatant data-vacuuming law that I think some people imagine it to be.
IMO the real solution to preventing kids getting into adult content is for Governments to agree on and enforce a universal set of parental controls that every program and website has to respect. Put the onus on parents to make sure their kids aren’t doing that stuff.
But that’s not the world we’re working with. Instead Governments have decided they’re going to play nanny, and it would appear nobody is taking no for an answer.
So from a practical perspective, if I’m going to have to play along, I’d much rather my own computer handle my sensitive data locally and prove my age for me, than multiple fuckwits’ servers off who-knows-where holding onto that data per website I want to visit.
accuses me of dodging criticism for making a very specific argument about how treating real and fake genocide as equivalent is a form of genocide denial
Somehow, you don’t see the irony.
I don’t see how highlighting Khurbn denial is dodging criticism.
They directly addressed it, ya lying freak
Maybe… this is where I guess the instance rules get in the way because I’d like to know what exactly that looks like. Because it’s well known that communists and others tried to violently resist the Nazis in the lead up to the third reich. So you’d have to articulate how your strategy was different from what was tried and failed.
My reading of history is that sporadic violence is a very ineffective anti-fascist tactic.
Unlike yourself and that other user, who are simply neutral observers? lmao