[ExI] The Fight against Online ID checks

[BillK]

Stop Online ID Checks WEEK OF ACTION
<https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-online-id-checks-week-of-action/>
Quote:
“The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back“

The invasive practice of demanding a government ID, credit card, or
face scan to access websites has been growing in popularity among
censorship-loving lawmakers globally. Lawmakers claim blocking sites
and demanding IDs keeps kids safe. But what lawmakers claim isn’t
“safe” for kids is often the very information that marginalized people
need to survive: abortion care, sex ed, LGBTQ+ community, journalism,
and political speech. And collecting massive amounts of our sensitive
data to store in insecure databases sure isn’t safe, either.

With the implementation of the UK Online Safety Act and online ID
check bills across the US, we’ve seen the real impacts of age-gating:
popular games, Reddit, Bluesky, and X locked away, tens of thousands
of IDs leaked online, and millions restricted from seeking out
life-saving information. In response, VPN usage is soaring, and with
it, fascist appetites for VPN bans. Online ID checks put the open
Internet we know and love at risk.
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