This is why I won't cede an inch on this

I don't know who finke is but i do know that literally everyone has been saying that.

I am shocked I tell you. It's never about the kids, or the family unit, or the fabric of society. It's about exerting their will upon others. And playing us all as numbers in their stats games.

I was born before the net. As it grew, I grew. I figured out ways to exploit everything. My current salary depends on those same skills.

If I was a kid, I would open instagram and some dumbass filter, switch to age verification and ask my grand/parent(s) to pose for filter, and then switch back to insta+filter and “show” them what they were posing for. 2fa would already be directed to my e-mail account.

If you’re desperate, there’s always that wack-a-do behind the 7/11 that thinks the net is mind control. He’s not wrong, but he also won’t be an online anytime soon.

Raise your middle finger to such stupidity with Ageless Linux:

https://agelesslinux.org/

While I think its true that for some supporting these changes its about religious, fanatic control 2 genders etc...

https://lemmy.ml/post/44638165

Meta is funding these changes and as they are a corporation, I think its fair to assume for them its about money. So the motivation isn't about ideological change its about capitalist and share holder values.

I think its important to show who's really behind these proposals, so we know who to oppose. This is not just about trans kids, this is about all of us.

Speculation: Since Metas business is userdata I think they want to track you though the web with your ID connected. Similar how a user with a email is worth more to data brokers, one with a payment method is worth more and I assume one with ID even more.

Who knows what their real endgame is or I'm just too sinister but I can imagine if they leak enough IDs they might deteriorate in significance and Meta might swoop in to save the day, being the last instance who can verify you for you.

I'm definitely guilty of putting it off, but the very second that my operating system asks me how old it I am is the second that I stop using it and switched to something else that does not.

We gotta stop this shit

Why is this being posted to Linux? Wouldn't !privacy@programming.dev be more appropriate?

Hope this leads to the great unplug event the world needs. We but the tower of Babel.. now let's tear it down.