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"The SCREEN Act also targets VPNs .... and bill requires covered websites to verify users' ages based on their IP addresses unless the service can determine that the user is outside the United States, and specifically requires age verification on traffic coming from known VPN addresses."

The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult WebsitesThe Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users’ ages before they can access any sexually e...www.eff.org

It is an interesting choice to not put Côte D'Ivoire on a côte.

Youth "deserve our full support & imagination. What they have received instead is a moral panic about social media, one that steers the conversation away from the structural failures of housing, climate, economic inequality, & democratic exclusion, & onto the devices in young people's hands."

Silencing a Generation: Youth power, the Milk Tea Alliance and the rise of age-gating laws in Asia-Pacific | Manushya Foundationwww.manushyafoundation.org

"The young people who could probably least afford to be cut off from their communities are the ones who tend to be suffering and getting harmed the most by these types of laws" says me in the Journal of Medical Internet Research re social media and chat bot age bans www.jmir.org/2026/1/e107251

As foretold. www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went DarkMSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.www.wired.com

Federated systems are hard to build

These laws actually get in the way of carefully tailored efforts to create safer spaces for young people online. Bad for the rights of young people to speak, access information, art and culture, and form community. Bad for their safety.

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Warms this South Jersey native's heart

Friction systems like this, where the some see a benefit to just making access to information and speech forums more difficult, tend to disproportionately harm poor kids, Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco &I discussed this (actually too popular take) in our Speaking Freely interview www.eff.org/pages/speaki...

and the strategy is to intimidate the press not to stop murdering people

Barriers will absolutely change that. Barriers are purposefully intended to change that.

When I defended Twitter's & Facebook's right to suspend Trumps' accounts, many human rights folks told me it showed that the companies were too powerful and needed to be reined in. I replied "I'd be more concerned if a head of state could force a company to broadcast their every word." Same here.

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US govt policy denying visas, even tourist visas, to disinformation researchers, trust & safety professionals and content moderation workers is STAYED on 1st Am grounds. Lots of good stuff in Judge Boasberg's order storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...