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If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.
Just saying.
They need you more than you need them.
Stop complying with invasive requests.
@Em0nM4stodon I haven't been asked for ID to verify my age on any websites or accounts. My understanding is it's mostly for "mature" content, especially of a sexual nature.
As a gray asexual, if a fourteen year old can't see it, I don't want to.
It's also invasive, but for me it's mostly the above.
@Em0nM4stodon exactly this in combination with that:
https://puntarella.party/@antanicus/115622026618823941
Free yourself and improve your wellbeing in the process :)
@Em0nM4stodon
pretty close
after 30+ years of 'internet' presence,
to being done with all this.
can't get a 'real' phoneline anymore
not sure I even want that.
@Em0nM4stodon The moment fb asked me my ID card or passport to verify an account I had made I just gave up... What are they supposed to be to ask for this kind of data? To verify what? And I even dislike it when I am asked about my phone number... Why on earth do people casually give away info like that? "I don't have anything to hide" is not even an answer....
@Em0nM4stodon In addition, everyone should block their platforms and tracking solutions via DNS filters and chase the email addresses into the spam filter.
@Em0nM4stodon MS just told me when I turned on my Xbox in the first time in forever that I need to either submit a photo of my ID or let AI scan my face to confirm my age or I'll lose access to 'social features'.
Okay? I've never once thought "Let me turn on my XBox to see what the person I played Forza with 10 years ago is up to"
@Em0nM4stodon Remember, on ad-supported platforms, you are NOT the customer. You are the product that is being sold to the real customer -- the advertisers.
@Em0nM4stodon I'm definitely gonna do that. I already refuse to do it on Youtube, even though they want me to for some extra features
See, this is exactly why age verification is stupid. I don't know where you are, but at least in the U.S.—and most places, as I understand it—a kid 13+ using the Internet is perfectly legal with only the obvious exceptions. That's exactly how it should be. Let's just call it what it actually is. It's not that they don't want kids to have access to things they shouldn't have access to. It's that they don't want kids to have access to Wikipedia or anything else like it, or any search engine, or any news outlet. They want kids completely unaware of anything they haven't been taught in school. That way they're easier to control as adults. I read the newspaper when I was a kid. According to them, that made me dangerous as an adult. I hope they're right, honestly.
Oh noes! My post reach on LinkedIn is gonna be throttled? How will I make contact with chatbots offering me fake jobs in exchange for installing scraper software?
Every platform demanding government ID's are a high profile target for data leaks and why I immediately close the window when asked. I'm going to hear about them getting hacked within a year...
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange it is not so simple because of network effects. For example, Discord holds you hostage, but it's not just a personal decision. Your friends are on Discord. And if you don't comply with the rules of the platform, you will never talk to them again.
As such, you become isolated from them.
The real problem here is we have allowed for-profit megacorps to own your social graph in a way you cannot escape to any alternative contact method or platform.
Yes, you could, for example, stop using Bluesky and go to Fediverse. But you'd also have to pull in your social graph into Fedi. And generally, you are not going to be very successful in convincing even a majority of the people you follow to not only move over, but also post on Fedi with the same frequency.
The battle is lost before it begun.
I didn't lose a single true friend from Discord when I deleted my account. We'd already exchanged phone numbers and/or email addresses and/or real names, on purpose. "We" meaning myself and exactly three people. I had absolutely no problem getting a hold of exactly three people from Discord. I talk to all three of them on Signal now. I also lost a lot of so-called friends, most of whom probably wouldn't help me move if their personal vehicle happened to be a U-Haul and I happened to live next door. Was anything of value truly lost? Do you want friends or do you want "friends"?
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