• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Well, they’re coming for anonymity as well. The UK identification laws could be used to collect data on theoretically anonymous social media accounts, as it applies to any website that could possibly show a child something “inappropriate”, which iirc, includes not just porn but what they consider support for whatever they define as terrorism.

    GOP reps have been pushing for similar ID/age checks for a while.