But this is still worth fighting. It’s a bellwether for more restrictive age+identity verification laws, and those should not exist in the US. The gov’t shouldn’t have any say in what I compute the same way they shouldn’t have any say in what I discuss using the mail. This is a clear step away from that and it’s important to make that clear to lawmakers now so they don’t use this as evidence the populace is ok with something stronger.
Yes, there’s definitely worse out there.
But this is still worth fighting. It’s a bellwether for more restrictive age+identity verification laws, and those should not exist in the US. The gov’t shouldn’t have any say in what I compute the same way they shouldn’t have any say in what I discuss using the mail. This is a clear step away from that and it’s important to make that clear to lawmakers now so they don’t use this as evidence the populace is ok with something stronger.