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There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a well-intentioned goal that's impossible to implement without egregiously privacy violating measures.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It's not well intentioned. Those egregious privacy violating measures are the intention, "protecting kids" is a smokescreen.