• TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    This is treating Twitter as a pornographic website, which the new French law puts more requirements on. If it was just a “I am over 18” button, I don’t think pornhub would pull out(pun unintended). It’s easy to bypass with a VPN or tor, but are you going to pull that out just to doom scroll for a hate fix? Maybe, but that’s a choice a lot of people are going to have to make.

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      30 days ago

      I’m all for making it exceedingly less convenient for people become radicalized, personally. Age verification isn’t a magic bullet, but still very much worth doing.

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        30 days ago

        Additionally it’s convenient tooling to have in place for other undesirable behaviour, as the EU is getting Orbanised.

      • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        What you’re saying is that the government should control access to information, so that people will hold the correct ideology.

        I don’t think that’s a game that a liberal democracy can win.