Online Age Verification as a Critical Digital Rights Battleground
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Summary
A thread arguing that online age verification is a critical battleground issue, framing it as the foundational infrastructure for broader digital control. The author warns that losing this fight would lead to losing everything, suggesting it enables surveillance and censorship infrastructure.
Key quotes
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This is the infrastructure that enables every other piece of the digital control grid.
If we lose this fight, we lose everything.
Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else.
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