Sad truth.

Insert "but the people are retarded" meme...

You are absolutely right, once a politico tells them it's for your safety and that of the children; they are sold. That's why a lot of them keep voting for the politicos that are pushing these Draconian measures

I think there's this belief on Nostr that we just need to explain the dangers to people, then they'll understand and embrace our point of view. I think most people think age verification is a good thing, and they think opposing it is crazy. I don't think people on here deal with normies enough.

It's popular among boomers. Not really anyone else. None of my normie friends support this shit.

I haven't directly seen it promoted or shown that way to me, as someone who speaks Spanish. Para eso te traduci esta

I talk to normies all the time, so I never had that impression in the first place. Most of them will cheer surveillance for "security" in a heart beat.

I talked to students about it today. They hate it, of course. One guy actually burst into tears (for a little moment) when he realized he might not be able to continue watching YouTube videos for the next 5 years...

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I find this is less about convincing normies (though I will maintain that educating normies is a noble pursuit no matter how hopeless it seems). It is more about applying the right political pressures, advocating for better data and privacy laws, trying to educate legislators, and taking age attesta...

Politicians and boomers (not all) are not people.

At least my immediate cohort of normies over here in the states is pretty against it.

nawwww, no way is that true. every time bluesky tries to add age verification they see huge swaths of users switch to other PDS hosts.

True. But I think even when I am the only person with a view. I can try my best in explaining it. And for sure some will understand. At least under technical people most agree with the importance of privacy and datacontrol.

That's why, showing what UK is doing is so important, it's a glimpse into what the KYC process of age checks will be used for. The whole problem is not with age checks, it's with deanonymization and use of that KYC data to silence people. But.. age checks/blocks do have discriminating properties e...

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One more thing. If they have asked the whole world: hey, there is a problem with younger generation, let's solve this, maybe researchers have some sane solution, maybe some brilliant ideas will show up? But no. They chose to start A SNEAKY WAR on freedom, starting with locking bootloaders of everyth...

Group-think is so hot... for years.

We tend to project our beliefs & values out onto the world. The opinions of nostr people is not reflective of the average projections in society. Normies see ghosts & goblins that aren't there. They look to seek permission from authority rather than just doing stuff. Nostr has a selection bias & ...

sadly, I think you're right ☹️

I bet the teenager's don't love it. Let's steal the young and steal the culture. And by "let's" I mean someone that is not me.

Well calling it an "age check" to "protect the children" sounds way better than "Online ID Verification for Every Damn Site on the Internet So You Can't Criticize the Government".

general populace is retarded :(

It is fking 2026. YET THEY STILL DONT SEEM TO GET HOW INTERNET WORKS