Post by @thecyberwitch@mastodon.social

2025-12-30 13:41 UTC

@TCatInReality which measures of OSA as it is do you support vs oppose? Do you support ID and face verification and if so, are you ok with governments and third parties holding onto that info? With the amount of data breaches that happen on top of that? Are you comfortable with a government increasingly hostile to trans people deciding what is "age-gated?" Where are existing laws failing, and why? My experience says enforcement. Many reports go untouched. OSA is no fix for that.

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@TCatInReality@mastodon.social 2025-12-30 13:51

@thecyberwitch Good questions and I will assume they are asked in good faith 1) I support the basic structure of OSA - That online providers need to do an audit; that they need to decide if they will host content that needs age controls or not; that they have a legal responsibility to have safety controls to enforce that decision; and that there is some type of age-gating 2) I think that the age gating process is woefully ill-defined and unregulated. Thankfully, it is not centralised. 1/n

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@thecyberwitch@mastodon.social 2025-12-30 14:09

@TCatInReality Calling it a "techbro pseudo libertarian argument" in the face of these legitimate consequences when we often see law enforcement fail to follow through their laws protecting children, rings a little reductive to me. While laws protect food safety, parents can easily neglect their child's nutrition with junk food and poor cooking can lead to food poisoning, so the responsibility ends with them. Existing laws support safety. It's the failure to enforce them.

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