I think it's already here (globally, I mean). The beast is just now confident to show its face.

Yes that's whah Carney has been paid to want.

Because it de facto requires everyone using the internet to provide their identity, which is something that gives authoritarian types a huge boner. Once there is no such thing as anonymous discourse, it becomes trivial to target/arrest/harass/brutalize dissenters or indeed anyone the current regime simply doesn't like.

It’s part of the data center push, Palantir, all of it. Centralized info storage so if anyone starts to push back anywhere they know exactly who and where. That and ads. The internet is too anonymous.

It’s the same set of billionaires. A little line between countries doesn’t mean much to them.

Because the wealthy and the elite think we are on the cusp of a world with a massive labor surplus, no jobs, and nothing to follow it. There will be massive unrest, and so they want to lockdown the internet before that happens, so it will be easier to direct the angry horde at each other rather than at the top where all the issues are actually stemming from.

Because Meta and probably Bloomberg too, bribed them.

Social networks see the writing on the wall and want to create regulatory capture. If they provide the identify verification it is another hook into us.

Surveillance

I suspect it's just their way of inching towards requiring everyone to provide ID to access the internet, they pretty much always wrap this stuff up in some sort of "protect the children" hysteria, so they can accuse anyone who protests it of being a pedophile.

Also Meta is lobbying for it so they can get off the hook for having to moderate their own stuff by shunting the responsibility onto someone else.

My plan is to just never submit to an age verification. Change servers or self host if necessary. Worse comes to worse, we log off.

Vote.

End capitalism. It's no coincidence all these countries are pushing this in lockstep.

End goal is the death of online freedom.

Get angry, get involved in your local politics to bring democracy to the workplace and the economy.

It's not gonna get better otherwise.

Its unlikely that we will, too many people want this and the elites have created a system that has disempowered people completely. You work around it, with VPNs and use other sites.

Stop voting “strategically” and stop whining about largely made-up NDP critiques. People will voluntarily eat shit just because they heard that the cake on offer doesn’t have any icing.

Because the things they do make the anonymous internet hate them.

Gabe Newell is a rare example of someone who is rich and has a decent amount of power but still the majority of the internet loves him

They are throwing Bill C-22, (L)Awful Access and C-34 at the same time to confuse low information voters.

Now here's a camera I want full Slo-Mo 4K footage of the Benny's hitting the floor after you slap them out of JP.

How many lawmakers are publicizing their support for Rule 34 on the internet?

Rule 34 is a famous internet maxim stating: "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions." It asserts that any conceivable subject, fictional character, corporate brand, or inanimate object has been or will be depicted in explicit content somewhere online.

You should check out reticulum if you haven't already. More use cases than just messaging.

We're not already doing that? (No we're not, my node is hella lonely)

Seconding reticulum. Meshtastic is a toy, reticulum is actual infrastructure

Everyone in power wants it. They all say "It's for the children". State govs have already done it for adult sites.