MalReynolds comments on Age Verification is Now Mutating into General ID

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 27 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Oh look, another attack on the freedom of speech that anonymity allows. Here's hoping "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Many of us will. I will quit before I submit to this.

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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm not defending this shit, I'm of course against it, but a true freedom of speech means you should not need to worry about hiding your identity when saying what you think. The law supposed to protect you from any repercussions from the government.

The fact that we do, means that perhaps freedom of speech was taken from us much earlier than that.

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[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

The law of the government was supposed to protect us from the government... Something tells me that was never going to work in the long term.

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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

That theory pretty much only works for a limited government with a clear separation of powers and some actual accountability.

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Quite right, there's a scale of freedom of speech and the world is sliding down. The independent media, like newspapers with real journalists went first to the media barons like Murdoch, then we got the internet and some independence returned, along with an anonymous voice for the masses, then facebook et.al. corrupted that independence and controlled the voice with algorithms and network effects, and now this. All downhill.

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