And censorship.
Who needs the first amendment anyways!?
I don’t, I don’t really even know how the Constitution Act of 1867 has to with censorship.
and child abuse
hot take, preventing kids from accessing information their parents (or the government) deem inappropriate (such as queer resources, abortion resources and sex ed more generally), is child abuse
And they will get away with it.
I don’t think that"s the reason for the absird lobbying, which is why it’s getting through.
Governments aren’t that competent to get this through at scale, but corporations can and have a very good reasob to do so.
I believe that it’s a lot more probable that the reason is profit - social networks have a problem with bots. Advertisers don’t want to pay if 90% of impressions are bots, and you can’t really solve that problem easily.
Age verification by ID solves this, and if they even can lobby hard enough to outsource the costs to mandatory OS level veryfication, so they just call one OS api, it’s even better.
Surveillance by a government full of pedophiles!
They need new sources.
* government + corporate surveillance
