Don’t call it age verification.

nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social

@Tutanota I think you're absolutely spot on with this!

nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social

@arturo2bodegas @Ben_Benway @Tutanota Yeah, let's be clear: they never had good intentions. They just fool people into thinking that they do. They *NEVER* did. I can't emphasize this enough.

Meta and their other co-conspirators who helped bring this about just want to be the sole gateways of the Internet.

npars01@mstdn.social

@Tutanota

When the most corrupt industry on the planet funds a global fascist movement, there are no half-measures.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/politics/saudi-prince-iran-trump.html

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/trump-saudi-dinner-ai-deals-21196862.php

https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-04-01/ai-public-agency-comment-fraud-astroturf-identity-theft

https://www.kqed.org/news/12055854/how-google-organized-opposition-to-a-california-privacy-proposal

The fossil fuel industry has formed an international axis alliance with tech oligarchs against democracy & civil rights.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/photos-tech-ceos-mingle-with-trump-and-mbs-at-saudi-investment-forum.html

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/jury-reaches-verdict-meta-google-trial-social-media-addiction-2026-03-25/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/zuckerbergs-enlisting-the-gop-against-tech-rivals-apple-and-google-00295945

lin11c@toad.social · 18-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

@Npars01 @Tutanota
Did you know about this? Right after the new Fed chair, who is in the Epstein files, was confirmed. It didn't matter. In fact, it was a requirement. ️
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-regulator-approves-peter-thiel-173654694.html

femme_mal@mstdn.social

@lin11c

Erebor = robere = robbery

They're not even trying to hide it. *smh*

dademurphy@mstdn.social

@Tutanota I would argue that it’s both. When you’re at home, do you let your kid surf the web on the PC unabated? If you do, then I can understand why this would be difficult to grasp. Most parents would monitor what their children have access to on the home PC so there is no reason why it shouldn’t be done on their mobile devices as well. Parents have had twenty years to do this and they failed, now the government will step in and do it for you.

npars01@mstdn.social

@lin11c @Tutanota

The fossil fuel industry wants to de-dollarize the trade in sanctioned oil.

Cryptocurrency is a fraud that risks global financial destabilization. It's unregulated banking.

Trump's fascist billionaires use it to evade taxation, hide assets, & fund anti-democracy movements.

Thiel wants all your data, especially your financial data
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-15/thiel-backed-erebor-offers-venezuela-unlikely-banking-lifeline

https://www.bankingdive.com/news/erebor-bank-receives-national-bank-charter/811724/

Paying people in worthless company scrip is an old, old tactic of immiseration by The Moneyed

jeetuhlnx@mastodon.social

@Tutanota tbf the EU’s approach (if it works like they say) may actually be beneficial, but the UK stuff is just straight bullshit

paul@notnull.space

@Tutanota it serves the people who are supposed to be holding big tech social media companies to account by allowing said people to say "well, they breached the age verification protections in place so it's not the social business' fault they were encouraged to insert horrific thing here"

lin11c@toad.social · 26-05-15/thiel-backed-erebor-offers-venezuela-unlikely-banking-lifeline

@Npars01 @Tutanota
The data centers are for AI and also all the energy these crypto transactions require. They can't move to this system until massive data centers are constructed. Hello? Utah!!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash

rastal@mastodon.social

@Tutanota Just call it the #digitalid surveillance state or the technocracy. That's what it's part of.

2something@transfem.social

@Tutanota@mastodon.social

I believe the correct term is "surveillance age discrimination and censorship."

RE: https://transfem.social/notes/alifz5ktagpm0cyh

david@social.piconet.work

@Tutanota I was literally thinking about how the age verification is just another marketing data point last night and crafting a note for my website, and now I can just point to your toot. You saved me the effort!

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