Lauren Weinstein on Nostr: New York joins states demanding that all social media users prove their ages with ...

New York joins states demanding that all social media users prove their ages with government IDs, enabling mass tracking of all users.

Here we go again. There's no way to prevent children from accessing material without forcing ALL USERS to use government IDs to prove their age. Ultimately, that WILL lead to hacks of credentials, mass tracking of users' Web activities, and more. Politicians of both parties clearly want to replicate Communist China's terrible Internet tracking here. Awful.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/09/new-york-moves-to-limit-kids-access-to-addictive-feeds/