alt Hacker NewsLet's call this what it is:
1. A way for politicians and the state to track porn habits to US citizens and use that information against them in the future. Blackmail for the future politicians, business leaders, and wealthy to coerce them into doing what those in power want.
2. A way for conservatives to tighten the noose around non-chaste materials and begin to purge them from the internet. And if that works, that's hardly the last thing that will go. Next will be LGBT content, women's rights content, atheist content, pro-labor content, and more. (Or if you're on the other side of the political spectrum, consider that the powers could be used to remove Christian content, 2nd Amendment content, etc. It doesn't really matter what is being removed, just that the mechanisms are in place and that powers can put a lid on the populace.)
We aren't screaming loudly enough.
Do not try to sugar coat this with a pedantic mistake.
This is far worse.
It's a first step down a path the Big Brother state wants.
Yell.
Scream.
Protest.
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> 2. [escalating content purge]
Consider for example what might have happened if there was no anonymity available back when the official party line was that covid couldn't possibly have come from a lab accident and that Hunter Biden's laptop was a plant. People could have been prevented from sharing links to articles that disagreed with the official truth!
> 1. A way for politicians and the state to track porn habits to US citizens and use that information against them in the future.
This topic really brings out the crazy conspiracy theories.
No, politicians are not using Discord age verification to track constituents' porn habits and blackmail them with it later.
As someone who was actually hurt by being exposed to pornography as a child (though this was on the wild internet before Discord), I think you're being both histrionic and downplaying the dangers posed to children online.