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Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S. (linuxiac.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

They also want to be able to identify everyone on the Internet for a multitude of reasons, but one of them being to make a larger list of dissidents, adults and children alike.

Not like Snowden didn't warn us ahead of time.

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 weeks ago

Oh, absolutely. As the empire collapses, all that CIA violence will come home to roost. Anyone who hasn't yet done so should read The Jakarta Method - it's going to get really ugly.