When I was 8, I remember being bored and curious and touching a lot of parents stuff… phones… wallets… legal documents…

Most parents don’t put their stuff in safes…

Like… THE WALLET IS RIGHT THERE… I COULD JUST GRAB IT!

If they had age verification stuff back then… I could’ve just… quickly snap a pic of their ID and just YOLO it…

  • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    Even if you assume that the politicians aren’t being intentionally evil, in the best case they are acting from a position of negligent ignorance. It doesn’t really matter what their reasons are for supporting this, or what they intend for it to accomplish, the reality is that these kinds of laws will be used for the things I said. Someone should have told them that. Someone likely did tell them that. They decided, in the best possible case, that protecting children from seeing naked people or swear words is worth the dystopian surveillance of the general population. They’re fucking wrong and this kind of legislation only shows how ignorant and/or complicit they are. Maybe you could think like one fucking step beyond the political talking points to the real effects this will have.

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      17 hours ago

      I think their motivations do matter. In part because they’re the motivations of the general public in support of this, so it is those opinions that need to be swayed.

      The strategy is completely different if this came about due to payoffs by big tech versus if it has real grassroots support!