No, Governor. Your bill would require every person in the state of to upload their government ID in order to post online.
That's blatantly unconstitutional and will face an immediate legal challenge.
So it won't turn off addictive features or limit use.
It will just cost MA taxpayers $$$
Black-and-white photo of a Tacoma News Tribune exhibit at the Western Washington Fair, 1964. A large overhead sign reads “Tacoma News Tribune,” with an “Information” counter beneath it. At left, two men—one in glasses and a cardigan, the other in a hat and overcoat—stand beside an Associated Press machine displaying photos and news pages. At right, three women and a young boy gather at the counter, speaking with a staff member. A rack of newspapers and display boards with photos and diagrams are visible in the background. (Courtesy Tacoma News Tribune, Image TNT0122N, Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room)
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When archives disappear, communities lose memory, identity, and their only reliable record of change.
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ICE’s entire mission is murderous.
They routinely murder detainees in the shadows.
Now they’ve murdered someone in broad daylight.
They will continue to murder until we organize and build enough political power to stop them.
It’s that simple.
No one is coming to save us.
📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine.
“A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish.
🔗 Explore: web.archive.org
🎥 Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k
Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
@mmasnick.bsky.social is on point: "Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening: A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions."
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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