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With the worldwide wave of social media bans on major platforms aka digital verification, I wonder if we'll see an influx of people to the #fediverse
🤞🤞🤞 Here is hoping ❤
Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.
I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.
This is not a drill.
If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.
They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊
#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
The UK social media ban for under-16s does nothing to sort out the harms caused by platforms.
Harmful content is a product of a business model that uses data to drive engagement and target users with ads.
Digital ID checks feed more data into this system, while leaving the engine for harms unchecked.
Read our response ⬇️
openrightsgroup.org/press-rele…
#socialmediaban #socialmedia #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #StopKillingInternet #StopKillingTheInternet
Starmer’s social media ban fails to address root causes of online harms
Open Rights Group has responded to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s announcement that the Government will ban social media, including gaming sites, for under 16s in the UK.Open Rights Group
Age verification ...
#privacy #privacymatters #ageverification #socialmedia #surveillance #dataskydd #dataprotection #gdpr #deepstate
A thread to Stop ID Surveillance from coming to Canada ⛔️🧵
Yesterday, I sent a long letter to the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Culture Minister Marc Miller, and the leaders of all other major federal parties in Canada.
I sent this letter to voice my concerns about the upcoming bill that is planned to be introduced today at 5 p.m. ET, to propose a ban of social media for children, therefore requiring all social media platforms to identify every adults accessing it.
This is a long thread of what I wrote (mute me for one hour if you don't want to see it).
Feel free to copy any parts you want to share in your own letter of opposition sent to your representatives this week.
Here's how to find their contact information: ourcommons.ca/members/en/searc…
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#StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada
Following the Australian precedence, Brazil, Greece, Turkey, and Malaysia have now passed laws requiring age checks for social media.
😡 But age verification and ID checks destroy everyone's #privacy. 😡
Learn what countries are planning a social media ban for teens and fight #AgeVerification 💪
👉tuta.com/blog/age-verification…
Age Verification: What countries require you to perform ID checks & for what websites and platforms? | Tuta
Will the age verification era kill anonymity? More countries are passing age verification laws, now also for social media apps as seen in Australia and upcoming in the UK, France, Spain, and Turkey.Tuta
In reality, what they call age verification is abusive ID surveillance checks for everyone.
Start calling it what it is:
ID Surveillance.
We must all fight to Stop ID Surveillance.
#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #Privacy #HumanRights
Online harms bill to include social media ban for children under 16: source
The proposed social media ban for youth under 16 would mirror action first taken in Australia, where the measure took effect last December.Sean Boynton (Global News)
RE: c.im/@cdarwin/1167107212354371…
FOLKS! to properly ride this AI hatewave:
1. connect the dots with another big bust, ―bombing Iran― and the OPEC countries aggressively funding techbros to #aislop the USA
2. tell folks of all the aislopping techbros paying politicians to pass #ageVerification laws so they can use that info for their AI #stalkerware
the Ai hatearade is a rare moment of clarity among USA’s hegemonic majority.
this *is* the #antifa angle that could turn your families from the MAGA brink. USE IT.
Chuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im)
Outside the AI bubble, a backlash has been brewing for some time — and not only among students booing pro-AI commencement speakers.Chuck Darwin (C.IM)
I'm disabled, I don't like telling people that but here we are. As a result I don't have much money to spend once my bills are covered
thankyou for fighting against #AgeVerification and fighting for #VPNs and just internet freedom in general
You have my moral support. I've convinced a few people to donate to you too
I just published a new FOSS app/service age attestation/verification tracker to track which FOSS apps/services can be used with a peace of mind, without giving out sensitive data "to protect children"
odysee.com/@fossery-tech:4/fos…
#AgeAttestation #AgeVerification #Privacy #FOSS #OpenSource #FosseryTech
FOSS app/service age attestation/verification tracker
View on Odysee: FOSS app/service age attestation/verification trackerOdysee
>> When all these laws get stamped and approved, what happens when you run an operating system (let’s say Fedora or Ubuntu) and some web service or application is forced to do age checking and verification (or they face massive fines). Unless Linux distributions / desktop environments do end up implementing something that correctly adheres to these laws, what do you think will happen?
gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/linu…
#linux #ageverification #ageverificationlaw
Linux and open source getting age checking exemptions could be problematic
You've seen the news about various US states (and even a US-wide bill!) for operating systems to implement age checking - but exemptions could cause headaches.Liam Squires-Hand (GamingOnLinux)
🚨Warning: #Discord age verification is going live any day now.
While huge public backlash put Discord's plans on hold, they were never abandoned.
👉 Learn here what's next & how to protect your #identity: tuta.com/blog/discord-plans-ag…
#IDcheck #anonymity #privacy #AgeVerification
Discord planned to introduce age verification worldwide – but your protest stopped them. For now. | Tuta
Popular chat platform Discord plans to roll out age checks globally in June 2026, opting people into teens settings by default.Tuta
California and Colorado legislated that Linux distributions, being free and open-source, are exempt from the age verification in operating systems, unless they are proprietary like SteamOS (and Windows).
Too bad the systemd developers already complied with fascism in advance before the bills were even finalized.
Will Lennart Poettering and his followers now please remove the birthDate field from systemd?
P.S.: If you reply with any variation of "You need to calm down," I will block you.
gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colo…
#fascism #surveillance #AgeVerification #Linux #systemd
Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems
Remember all the ruckus with various US states introducing operating-system level age verification laws? Colorado and California thankfully exempt open source.Liam Squires-Hand (GamingOnLinux)
Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colo…
#Gaming #USA #PCGaming #US #AgeVerification #Linux #OpenSource
Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems
Remember all the ruckus with various US states introducing operating-system level age verification laws? Colorado and California thankfully exempt open source.Liam Squires-Hand (GamingOnLinux)
Privacy is online safety ✊️
That's why the UK government gets it so wrong with ever more online ID checks.
Either sensitive data gets stockpiled for attack, or people are driven to riskier parts of the Internet. It's lose-lose.
⏰️ We have the chance to tell them in the consultation by 26 May.
Have your say ➡️ gov.uk/government/consultation…
#onlinesafety #privacy #digitalID #ageverification #consultation #ukpolitics #ukpol
Growing up in the online world: a national consultation
We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (GOV.UK)
