Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all?
How do you think reference material and news gets written and distributed?
Reference material is often wikis or git repositories, which legally and technically are social media, so if you want those to exist, you want social media to exist.
News isn’t by itself social media, but social media helps significantly with following and discovering it. I get most of mine through Mastodon and Lemmy.
How do you think reference material and news gets written and distributed?
Reference material is often wikis or git repositories, which legally and technically are social media, so if you want those to exist, you want social media to exist.
News isn’t by itself social media, but social media helps significantly with following and discovering it. I get most of mine through Mastodon and Lemmy.