It would be a hell of a boycott against identify verification laws and VPN bans to just withdraw from their corporate infra entirely. The problem is most young people (and adults) don't have the mental bandwidth for it. Myspace and blogger were cool because they forced people to learn some HTML.
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Sadly no carve outs for Massachusetts Social Media ban.
Thanks for helping in Colorado.
I think they can be defeated eventually because they do violate civil and constitutional rights.
Are you part of this? Unfortunately, regular people aren't going to be that savvy to implement indieweb standards. I saw the wordpress plugin, but again, most young people aren't going to administrate one. I thought about porting some of the standards to simpler headless cms. But I'm still looking
Indieweb is making a small comeback. I thought about porting the Indieweb standards to a bunch of small headless cms and other things: make it easy for people to do.
Age verification gives all our data to big tech. You shouldn't have a right to vote to force companies violate my rights.
Who do you work for? You're making an awful lot of posts.
Giving them our data doesn't do anything but make them richer, violate civil rights, enable Palantir to match your account with your real life, and will likely dox millions of kids.
Anyone who shills for Palantir, Digital ID & Age Verification is either:
Paid up special interests to talk them up
Not very bright
Has a financial stake & wants to monitor your private life
Was offered a peek into your personal data to get that buzz from eavesdropping.
Violates Civil Rights. Smh. Gross thing to support.
Nostalgia! Neocities was so sleek back then! Drag and drop was like whoaaaaa
Unfortunately, under many laws proposed; Neocities may qualify as a Social Media 😂 In Mass House Bill 5366, their definition is nuts. They didn't even exempt Wikipedia.
We will have to use bludit or html/css/js 😅
Age verification will NOT make the internet safer
Pass that on
Anyone who has suffered harm can sue. That's anyone who lost their page (photos, videos, etc.) or access due to it. Anyone who's business lost a business page. Any "standing" is valid in court. And forms in courts can waive fees. Even the plaintiff can ask for a free public defender.
@governor.ny.gov ban age verification now and charge all lawmakers who back age verification/digital IDs with treason for violating the 4th and 1st amendment!
They're trying to pass one in Massachusetts right now.
Smart. I've been thinking about what it would take to have a 90's web revival. Remember webrings? Pingbacks on Blogs is how we got notified. Listservs. Rss.
What's your favorite games?
The irony of this representative to be speaking at a Privacy and Security chat after voting YAY on H5349
Support @fightforthefuture.org @eff.org @act-on-mass.bsky.social @agelesslinux.org.web.brid.gy @maindivisible.bsky.social @mass50501.bsky.social badinternetbills.com to protect PRIVACY
This bill will demolish anonymity on 90% of the modern interactive clear web. They voted DOWN against exempting Wikipedia. This will also stall open source development that may not be able to comply. Tricia Farley-Bouvier should explain herself before joining any talk about Privacy.
She voted YAY on House Bill 5349 / House Bill 5366 which will require platforms w/UGC to use the "best technology available" (likely ID / Biometrics) to ensure EVERYONE in Massachusetts is NOT a minor, ensuring our private data goes to not only Big Tech but thousands of sites that don't need it.
Personally, I only concede to agreeing to it specifically for sexual adult content, not for all adult content (movies, music, social media, etc.) That is what verification laws are doing right now. To use porn as an excuse to censor everything else they say is not for kids. That's up to parents.
Whom are you protecting and from whom are you protecting them from? You have your own threat models. We have ours. Verification make you a political target, target for hackers, predators, stalkers. You underestimate the skill and determination of hackers and predators.
www.wired.com/story/securi...
Your fence example falls apart because if a thief cannot see any fence or house in the first place, they would not know what to break into. Right now, we have pseudo-privacy. We need to make it more private, not less private: like posting a list on the fence of your belongings.
Who is paying you to post 10 posts in a row about this? The answer is, privacy is a natural right. Privacy is a human right. And privacy (In America) is a constitutional right.
If it was about safety, they would do more to protect our privacy, believe the victims, and prosecute offenders.
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