"This is why we will continue to urge policymakers and regulators to protect people’s rights and freedoms online at all moments, and not just take the easy route for a quick boost in the polls."

Good luck with that. Have they ever seen a politician?

All the online safety act has done has made it more difficult for adults like me to access LEGAL material.

I got asked for age verification on Steam ffs. A platform I've had an account on since 2003. My account is literally older than a significant proportion of the internet using population.

Didn't wash with the support people. Dicks.

All these politicians pushing the age verification do realize that the information being collected can help decloak their dirty business?

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Open Defiance and circumvention is the only moral response to this. Age verification is evil it's designed to hurt children get the facts

This is about a moral panic and centralization of access to knowledge, how can it be interpreted otherwise if that is by far the biggest shortterm and longterm impact?