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.
Microsoft is probably managing the Discord server to the best of their CoPilot recommendations.
Baned!
Yeah, because piefed.world doesn’t defed or censor anyone. Lol
That’s a pro in my book considering I had harassment directed my way by a feddit admin.