First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control
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I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the dangers of these laws, and pointed out why they are likely to...
  • @VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1•18 days ago

    And lock down the computer so it can’t use a bootdisk, lock out programs that can be used to circumvent locks like steam, browser plug-ins, and other VM stuff…

    • @BobQuixote@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•14 days ago

      The vast majority of kids would be stopped by the OS account restriction, especially now that they’re growing up with iPhones instead of Commodore 64s.