#ageverification

The UK social media ban is coming. That means every adult having to show their ID to get online. Age verification puts privacy at risk. Curbs freedom of expression. And simply doesn't work to keep kids safe online. The government needs to change course. But the clock is ticking. Sign the petition ⬇️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/say-no-id-online-access #ageverification #privacy #freedomofexpression #onlinesafety #socialmediaban #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalrights

💥 Discord Exodus Begins ｢ Unlike Discord, Matrix is federated. You don't have to use their main server. You can spin up your own homeserver on a Raspberry Pi or rent a VPS in a country that doesn't demand your ID card to send a meme. The trade-off? The user experience is still... rough. ｣ https://michael-dev-tech.github.io/Website/matrix.html #discord #matrix #ageverification

Open public consultation on the EU KIDS ACT. If you have opinions about EU rules for children on social media, age verification, concerns about how this will affect the fediverse, etc... here's the best place to share them: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/19418-Child-online-safety-keeping-digital-spaces-accountable-and-trustworthy-EU-Kids-Act-_en #EU #KidsAct #EUKidsAct #AgeVerification #PublicConsultation #EUHaveYourSay #fediverse #mastodon #socialMedia

Europeans/EU Citizens! Update on the EU Kids Act: The EU Commission has opened up the submission form for feedback on the bill. Let them know how much you don't want this! Let them know how much harm this bill will do to civil rights and economic stability! It's better to try and fail then to roll over and take it! https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/19418 P.S. And as always, mail/call your MEPs and other relevant government officials! #Privacy #Censorship #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #SocialMedia #EUKidsAct #EU #EuropeanUnion #AgeVerification

Why can't parents impose the time limit? "The agreement, which came days before a scheduled trial, calls for TikTok to implement changes for teenagers in Alabama including a two-hour daily time limit, pauses after 15 minutes of use and stricter age checks." CNBC: TikTok reaches first state settlement over teen safety claims, agrees to user limits https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/26/tiktok-reaches-first-state-settlement-over-teen-safety-claims.html @CNBC@flipboard.com #TikTok #socialmedia #ageverification

There's an EU citizen's #initiative against age verification and the necessity for a digital ID on the internet: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2026/000011_en You can sign it if you are an EU citizen. Cheers to the Finnish people who are already at almost 10% of the threshold required! #EUid #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #digitalID #petition

@dasmatus@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I haven't been following the EU Kids Act closely but the posts that I've read indicate that even Fediverse servers would be illegal/banned if they don't perform age verification and identity tracking. The act does not differentiate between big tech Facebook and small Fediverse servers. #EUKidsAct #Privacy #AgeVerification

Good times, Discord. Good times. #Discord #AgeVerification #Meme

9月18日，网信办发布《国务院关于保障未成年人健康安全使用网络的规定（征求意见稿）》（以下简称《规定》）。 《规定》要求，网络服务提供者不得向未成年人提供陌生人社交服务、虚拟亲密关系服务；向16周岁以下未成年人提供网络社交服务、可能影响未成年人认知的人工智能服务等网络服务时，应当以未成年人模式提供。 《规定》还要求，网络服务提供者应当具备年龄验证能力，可通过身份证件、网号网证、人脸识别及行为特征识别等技术进行年龄验证。 意见反馈截止日期为2026年10月17日。 https://www.cac.gov.cn/2026-09/18/c_1791482017777471.htm @board#互联网抗癌记 #年龄验证 #社交媒体 #隐私 #AgeVerification #SocialMedia #Privacy

In case you are falsely feeling protected outside of Europe: Chat Control doesn't just concern Europeans. It concerns all of us. These kind of regulations will come for all of us, everywhere, if we do not ALL push against it everywhere. If you do not understand how this is all intertwined, I invite you to read more privacy news and in-depth analysis. Because we must all support each other's privacy fights. Privacy is a human right 💚 Fight for a better world, together ✊🌍 #ChatControl #AgeVerification #DataMinimization #HumanRights #DigitalRights #Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE 🎉

Eine ausführliche Analyse und Einordnung zum #KidsAct #ageverification ist nun hier zu finden https://www.ccc.de/updates/2026/kids-act

@videos@pubeurope.com Age verification is a dangerous trap, it will give more power and data to USA BigTech, and the worst part: It doesn't fix the problem. https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl/leeftijdsverificatie/ #ageverification #privacy #BigTech

Nighthawks Game Removal Shows Why Age Verification Laws Are Bad Vampire game, Nighthawks, got removed from Steam for being adults only. The problem is that it wasn't adults only. https://www.freezenet.ca/nighthawks-game-removal-shows-why-age-verification-laws-are-bad/ #Business #Censorship #News #AgeVerification #gaming #Nighthawks #Steam

Age verification processes are dangerous to Canadians ⚠️🧵 Unfortunately, there is no magical solution: A ban of social media for children necessarily means a requirement to identify every adult using social media. This means that intrusive age-verification processes would have to be put in place by social media platforms, therefore collecting an immense quantity of very sensitive information from every Canadian adult using social media. This is dangerous in many ways. First, it means many (if not most) platforms will delegate this task to private for-profit third-party vendors with little to no incentive to protect this information properly. We have already seen data breaches of sensitive information in this process. This would increase the risk of Canadians becoming victims of identity theft and fraud, and would diminish the value of Canadian identification documents over time. Secondly, this can create a permanent record of legal identities tied to social media accounts. This would endanger users who rely on pseudonymity online for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, trans and gender diverse people (for whom the legal identification might not match the name used on social media), performers using stage names online, and other people that are part of marginalized groups regularly targeted online (women, people of colour, 2SLGBTQ+ people, etc.). All these vulnerable groups would only be one data breach away from incredible harm with the implementation of mandatory identity checks to access social media. Furthermore, risking to link every social media account to a legal identity can have a silencing effect for activists, journalists, and whistleblowers. This can lead to self-censorship of topics important to discuss publicly in a free democracy. (2/9) #StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

A ban does nothing to address the harm caused by social media 🧨🧵 The things that harm children on social media also harm adults. A ban of social media for children sadly does nothing to reduce the harm caused by social media, it only reserves it to adult, and postpones it for children. The addictive and manipulative black-box algorithms, the privacy-intrusive data collection, the harmful violent content and misinformation, are all hurting adults as well. Moreover, children who do not go around the ban before the restricted age (other implementations have shown that most children will attempt to circumvent the ban) will find themselves completely ill-equipped to protect themselves from social media harm once they come of age, and will be made even more vulnerable by our own legislation claiming to protect them. A true solution to this is to regulate corporate platforms to forbid addictive algorithms, targeted advertising, intrusive data collection, third-party data sharing, violent content, weak moderation, manipulative tactics, and other abusive mechanisms used by certain platforms to prioritize profits over the safety and sanity of its users. This would not only help children, but adults and society as a whole as well. (3/9) #StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

Lobbyists are influencing policies more than experts and advocates 💰🧵 Unfortunately, there are many groups that are putting pressure on governments all around the world to increase surveillance under the guise of protecting the children. The rapidly growing, for-profit, age assurance industry has all to gain in influencing governments to push for age verification processes and bans of social media for children. Even Meta has reportedly invested heavily in a network of organisations to discreetly lobby for age verification at the operating system level. Meanwhile, nonprofit organisations and advocates who genuinely care for the well-being of the public have been warning for years about the dangers of age verification and social media ban legislation, but have much less money and power to influence policies at the government level. I implore you, as the elected representatives for all Canadians, to consider this threat of corporate influence cautiously in your decisions, to listen to the warnings from advocates and experts in the field, and to prioritize first and foremost the well-being and safety of all Canadians. (4/9) #StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

Children would be harmed by this ban 🧒🧵 Despite how it might feel at first glance, a ban of social media for children would actually create new harm for children. First, many children would try to circumvent the ban, this is already happening in countries with such legislation, like Australia. Second, children who cannot circumvent the ban might be pushed to darker corners of the web to rebuild their social lives, on worse platforms, without any moderation or safety measures. Moreover, being pushed out of the legal frame, these teens and children might feel less inclined to report any abuses experienced to a trustworthy adult, effectively making the situation much worse. Then, children living with abusive or unsupportive families could lose their support network overnight. It is quite common for 2SLGBTQ+ teens and children living with families that do not support them to find emotional support in a network of peers online. This is often vital to survival. Losing this support suddenly can have devastating permanent consequences. (5/9) #StopIDSurveillance #Privacy #HumanRights #AgeVerification #CanPoli #Canada

@hpod16@eupolicy.social I don't disagree about the problem, and I think I'm one of the rare privacy advocates who could actually be okay with age verification for social media, provided it is implemented as set out in the European Digital Identity so that it uses zero-knowledge proof: this means that nobody can no which sites you have provided proof of age to, and those sites don't get to know who you are. Unfortunately we are still waiting for implementation of this. #privacy #ageverification #kidsact

I would like to take a position in favor of #AgeVerification . In Japan, there has been growing concern that platforms such as YouTube Shorts are contributing to reduced attention spans among children, while a trolling culture known as Reisho-Kaiwai (冷笑界隈, roughly "cynical troll circles") has also become a problem. The internet certainly has its positive sides, but I want people to understand once again that using it without proper education in digital literacy can easily lead to trouble. Even on the general-purpose message board commonly known as 2ch (Ni-channeru), there used to be a saying: "Lurk for six months before posting." In other words, people who cannot read the atmosphere or understand the norms of an online community should not be using the internet recklessly. And since trolling, harassment, and online outrage are problems even among adults, I would also prefer that adults who still behave like children keep their distance from social media.

The EU Kids Act "changes the fundamental open nature of the internet and makes it a permission-based system where you are required to pass through an identity checkpoint to access information. Imposing the same complex compliance requirements on [small] services risks pushing them out." ORG's @JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366650306/Tech-companies-under-fire-as-Europe-proposes-social-media-ban-for-under-15s#eu #ageverification #privacy #StopKillingtheInternet #eukidsact #SOTEU #politics #onlinesafety