As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe” for young people to access, and forcing online services to remove and block anything that may be deemed “unsafe.”

  • Granbo's Holy Hotrod
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    -66 days ago

    We survived for a long time without the internet and living through both ages…the internet did not make anything better other than employment in IT

    • Nat (she/they)
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      106 days ago

      Society might have, but many individuals did not. The Internet can provide community to those who feel isolated in their physical lives. You should really just read the article.

    • Pennomi
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      66 days ago

      It didn’t make anything better?