[shevy-java]

So, the mafia now reveals its evil face. It wants to censor young people's way to access information, without conforming to an "age check". This is the first step, the next is to require of this of everyone else.

This is the biggest attack on personal freedom since decades. It is time to crush those lobbyists that push for this.

By the way, even ignoring the propaganda by the lobbyists here, at which point did the "discussion" suddenly become to deny young people access to information? Because this is implied here. Some people were underage when wikipdia first emerged. The age sniffing here tries to undermine and revert all of that.

[dzhiurgis]

> mafia

IMO porn and drug mafia is far more likely to be lurking in reddit and here and spreading misinformation. Russian bots help here too.

[echelon]

> This is the first step, the next is to require of this of everyone else.

This is the threat day one. They get both groups' information.

Next, they'll start to purge information they don't like because it has been corralled off from the rest of the internet.

If they get lucky to trap a politician or billionaire in their net (and they will), they'll use that information to control how they vote or fund interests.

Next, they'll start to clamp down of people in the group they don't like. They'll lose jobs, banking, get extra audits, and have friction applied to their lives and chances of success.

Over time the fundamentalist group embraces government monitoring and control. The youth are brought up on it. The oligarchy use it to remove their enemies.

Within two generations we're living in 1984.

[20after4]

We're already living in 1984.

[verisimi]

We were already living in 1984 when Orwell/Blair wrote the book.