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The rise of anti-Establishment politics led the Establishment to strike back, and they play for keeps. That said I still expect mandatory age verification/ID f
by ls612 8mo ago
The rise of anti-Establishment politics led the Establishment to strike back, and they play for keeps.
That said I still expect mandatory age verification/ID for the internet to fail legal challenges in the US as there is broad precedent for both anonymous speech rights and children’s speech rights under the first amendment.
- j_w 8mo agoThe anti-Establishment people that were only anti-Establishment until they had power, then they are very much pro-Establishment. The writing has been on the wall for years with a desire among states to identify individuals using the internet. Whether or not we will continue to win the fight against it is up in the air.
- ls612 8mo agoBack in August SCOTUS declined to enjoin a similar law in Mississippi but for procedural reasons, and Kavanaugh wrote as part of the denial that he believed the law was probably unconstitutional. That makes me optimistic for the us on this matter tbh. https://courthousenews.com/supreme-court-greenlights-social-media-age-checks-for-mississippi-minors/ https://courthousenews.com/supreme-court-greenlights-social-...