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Cake day: March 24th, 2022

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  • The direction is fine. The problem is that to enforce age verification at that level, you need to give Apple/Google/whoever else full ID scans.

    It also raises the cost for making/running apps, because (in the EU’s case at least) they are requiring the developer to institute age verification mechanisms, which cost massive amounts of money (servers, tech support, legal support), and the big corporations are trying to offload that cost onto tax payers and their user base instead.






  • Show them that it’s actually more convenient to protect your privacy than not doing it. It gets real easy to get people interested in privacy when you show them that just by installing a simple adblocker you can view youtube videos without ad interruptions and you can visit sites without annoying screenlocking pop-ups.

    Also, don’t use Brave if you are into privacy. Brave is doing a lot of awful things with your privacy. It just blocks others sometimes from doing these things as well. There’s so many browser alternatives out there now, that there’s 0 reason to pick Brave.








  • Inadvertently, it doesn’t matter who you are voting for, because all candidates at all levels (especially at the higher ones), will “compromise” because “of political realities”. They’ll vote for the corporation, the military, the imperialist foreign policy, the gutting of any semblance of social safeties, etc. But then they’ll excuse it to you, and tell you they are with you. And then do it again the next time. Tell me honestly that the candidates you’ve voted for so far haven’t followed this pattern of behavior.

    It doesn’t mean they are fascist or evil themselves. They are just part of a party that is ideologically and institutionally part of a particular system that serves capital. Sometimes they are allowed to pursue some policy that doesn’t really affect capital, just because it helps keep the facade up, like same-sex marriage, or some token of welfare. More often they are allowed to speak about these things but hindered at implementing them. And that’s why they’ll always be fascists too. Just polite ones.