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254 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Jul \ on: SCOTUS age verification ruling expands surveillance apparatus alter_native
This seems like another obnoxious thing Stacker News may have to contend with at some point.
Yes, these age verification laws are gonna get applied to everything.
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Like driving a car
How will we maintain a free society if a 12 year old must get a license to drive
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Drivers licenses did make possible quite a dramatic expansion of the surveillance state.
Would TSA have worked if drivers licenses werent already widespread?
It seems to me that this new step into age verification requirements sets the stage for kyc to use the internet.
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and yet illegal or undocumented immigrants have figured out a way to dodge the surveillance state
FYI, TSA doesn't work
edit: is Pornhub a free or paid service? I would look it up except you probably have the most thorough answer
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FYI, TSA doesn't work
I couldn't agree more, but that only makes me more angry that I have to do all the security theater to get on an airplane. Just because it doesn't work, doesn't mean they won't make my life more difficult by trying it.
I don't think KYC laws work either, but they certainly make it more difficult for many Bitcoin businesses and for Bitcoiners in general. Just because they don't work doesn't mean I don't have to give all my details to an exchange and then get screwed when their database is leaked.
In the case of our original argument, I don't care what the subject is: porn, marijuana, being able to say racial slurs -- I see regulation of these things directly leading to ever-expanding surveillance of the general population. We are close to the point where the 4th amendment is null and void because there are so many established carve outs.
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