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RE: https://mastodon.social/@TwraSun/116011845063722917
Was auf den Plattformen der sog. sozialen Medien geschieht, ist vielfach #kriminell.
Und die Betreiber gehören wie andere Kriminelle auch dafür zur Rechenschaft gezogen.
Endlich hat ein 🇪🇺 europäischer Staatschef das mit aller Klarheit ausgesprochen.
Bravo, #PedroSanchez. 🇪🇦 Eviva #Espana.
#Instagram #TikTok #X #YouTube #Facebook #Recht #Gesetz #Paradigmenwechsel
@neuSoM abgesehen von dem #AgeVerification crap - bravo! 👏
#Pornhub is now restricting access for #UK users - will other sites follow suit?
The UK's largest #porn site has blocked unregistered users from accessing it in the country, but its motives remain unclear.
#privacy #ageverification
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5er4ewg6o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
We need to understand something really basic about the #queer community as a whole that pretty much sets us apart from pretty much most other minorities: we are by our very nature fractured, diverse, and spread thin.
That is because we do generally not grow up among members of our own community. Gay guys don't often have two dads, the trans kids don't just come from trans parents. Discovering who and what we are is an often painful, generally harrowing look into ourselves that those around us are not confronted with, and commonly, an isolated experiece at first. Our self discovery is part of who we are. At best, there's a family member instead of growing up with a shared culture and tradition among peers.
Culture and tradition? We come from all walks of life. Our commonalities are being reduced to "pervy sex stuff", generally at best tragic, often vilified, and mostly grossly misrepresented role models in media, and the struggle for either to not happen anymore, plus getting on par with the cis-het-allo-mononormative majority. Not ahead, no privileges, just on par.
In this light, easy access to the internet has been a blessing. The words, the ideas, the communities could grow an equivalent to a locality that by definition, we couldn't have before, apart from the handful of other weirdos wherever we lived, and there was no guarantee that you'd get along with any of them - if they showed themselves, even, because often, who we are is also completely invisible, or at least hidden behind shibboleths that discovering yourself on your own, you simple wouldn't know.
Queer identity is one of being born into a secret society that you as a member have to discover as rite of induction. If you fail, misery tends to visit you again and again, without having a good explanation for it, dissatisfaction, and shame from an unknown source.
In this light, the push to #AgeVerification for social media and internet access is especially awful. With "queer" being equated to sex stuff exclusively, queerness is effectively banned in the era of life where teens are supposed to discover love, and have first, clumsy experiences. But while the cishets generally experience queerness from porn and get their fingers sticky to what they view as fetish, it is so much more. Especially for trans kids, research on who and what they are is postponed to a time when devastating damage is already taking place, and a lot of it in fact irreversible, or a huge effort and cost to correct.
It will deprive queer youth of finding greater community, and put them at the mercy of parents that generally at best often have no clue, and at worst are openly hostile. For the queer community, the "little gay people on the phone" that they often won't be able to meet ever in meatspace can in fact be their closest peers, and a lifeline. Isolating people is a common tactic in indoctrination. Isolating queer youth is an attempt at conversion therapy.
Vimeo is asking me for age verification to continue access my own files, even if I had this account since 2007. Even if I was 1 year old when I created that account, I'd still be 20 years old now.
So why the ask? What a useless thing.
Vimeo is asking me for age verification to continue access my own files, even if I had this account since 2007. Even if I was 1 year old when I created that account, I'd still be 20 years old now.
So why the ask? What a useless thing.
Age verification, as it would concern those (somehow) financially interested (I guess, looking at it), has (apparently) nothing to do with the law in its own right (this is absurd).
I'm working from the assumption that if "they," meaning said company, do not wish for you to use their website, app, etc., then that necessarily means that they do not wish to do business with you in any capacity, and that this is their own discretion whenever it's not a legal requirement—perfectly reasonable things to assume, I think.
So: the following is copied directly from the official U.S. McDonald's website.
"The online services are not intended to be used by, or targeted to, anyone under the age of 18 years old. You must be at least 18 years old to use the online services."
https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/terms-and-conditions.html
By demonstration, the reason why they—literally McDonald's in this case—would tell you they want age verification on their site if you were to ask them and we're pretending they wouldn't lie to you, is because they do not want your money in the event that you're too young to do business with them according to themselves, and the reality that selling literal food to kids is, obviously, perfectly legal is irrelevant because they believe themselves above the law according to their own website.
If you are a United States citizen, or if you're visiting the U.S. from anywhere else elsewhere on Earth or from another planet while we're at it, and you are eighteen years of age less one day: McDonald's USA, LLC doesn't want your money, kid.
If you're between sixteen and eighteen and years of age, and the adult(s) responsible for you, along with some judge in some court in some jurisdiction, have agreed to emancipate you: McDonald's USA, LLC still doesn't want your money, legally adult kid.
Age verification, as it would concern those (somehow) financially interested (I guess, looking at it), has (apparently) nothing to do with the law in its own right (this is absurd).
I'm working from the assumption that if "they," meaning said company, do not wish for you to use their website, app, etc., then that necessarily means that they do not wish to do business with you in any capacity, and that this is their own discretion whenever it's not a legal requirement—perfectly reasonable things to assume, I think.
So: the following is copied directly from the official U.S. McDonald's website.
"The online services are not intended to be used by, or targeted to, anyone under the age of 18 years old. You must be at least 18 years old to use the online services."
https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/terms-and-conditions.html
By demonstration, the reason why they—literally McDonald's in this case—would tell you they want age verification on their site if you were to ask them and we're pretending they wouldn't lie to you, is because they do not want your money in the event that you're too young to do business with them according to themselves, and the reality that selling literal food to kids is, obviously, perfectly legal is irrelevant because they believe themselves above the law according to their own website.
If you are a United States citizen, or if you're visiting the U.S. from anywhere else elsewhere on Earth or from another planet while we're at it, and you are eighteen years of age less one day: McDonald's USA, LLC doesn't want your money, kid.
If you're between sixteen and eighteen and years of age, and the adult(s) responsible for you, along with some judge in some court in some jurisdiction, have agreed to emancipate you: McDonald's USA, LLC still doesn't want your money, legally adult kid.
