Yeah, turns out that I really REALLY want that .pdf purchase so I can put it on my own hard drive and not have it disappear and get deleted because daddy bezos says the license expired.

Fuck amazon.

My computer can't be hacked if I don't have a computer.

For sale: vulnerable computer collection.

Highest bid: $0.00

Algospeak is a cancer upon society.

Is this like carcinization for accents?

Read the fucking article. The EFF is not talking about tax laws but freedom of association without government identification. I was merely using the UK's tax law definition of "social media" to demonstrate how easy it is to establish an overly broad definition of something either accidentally or maliciously.

Do you want a free internet where people can associate without the government's permission? Or are you privileged enough that you've never had to worry about your rights and privileges?

EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Age verification technology itself is often inaccurate and privacy-invasive, and as more countries considering implementing ID-based checks, the risks move beyond censorship and surveillance toward excluding some people entirely.

From the fucking article, since you won't read it, you philistine.

This is the EFF. These people know what they're doing and talking about.

But sure, I'm painting a strawman. Let's take a look at how the UK defines "social media service" in one of their tax laws!

(3)“Social media service” means an online service that meets the following conditions—

(a)the main purpose, or one of the main purposes, of the service is to promote interaction between users (including interaction between users and user-generated content), and

(b)making content generated by users available to other users is a significant feature of the service.

source

The internet is much larger, until that part gets thrown down the slippery slope too.

It is. You're using social media right now. So is IRC if you think about it. Anything with a "message component" that "exchanges user submitted information between other users" or whatever can be classified as social media.

Under that definition, it's very easy to group things such as forums, github/gitlab/whatever. Now you can't even voice complaints or get and help build source code to resist.

Fuck age verification laws. Anything less than calling it encroachment on liberty and democracy itself is boot licking.

First time I hear of this dude. He's doing the numbers!

I keep stumbling into this post and I keep liking those damn shoes. I thought I never liked brown suit shoes but damn... those are some good shoes.

Parroting imperial core talking points? I dig a little in your post history and you're in there with "Ukrainians are nazis" and "Western media" screenshots without attributions?

The Wikipedia page on the genocide of the Uighurs has 419 citations and yet you deny it.

Cry harder, little bitch.

edit: Wow, the links that follow surely aren't handpicked examples! I am TOTALLY convinced China is not genociding against the Uighurs and Russia is not genociding against Ukraine now!

That was really funny. I had a hearty chuckle, especially imagining you laughing at my post thinking it was a follow up.

Fuck man. The guy seemed real as fuck in Breaking Bad. What a fucking waste.