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Reddit has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for any NSFW content, as well as for some social media functions, if the AI determines you might be under a certain age.

Another good day to be on Lemmy... until the surveillance capitalist tech overlords lobby enough to get their great firewall of the West, anyway.

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[–] ell1e@leminal.space 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online Consider acting now if you don't want it to come to other US platforms, too...

[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're used to people screaming fuck no and doing it anyway.

[–] ell1e@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They sure will if everyone rolls over without even trying to protest. Consider contacting your representative: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm Or for the EU: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#delegates