Age verification laws purport to keep minors from accessing online adult content. But not only are they ineffective, as Michael McGrady Jr. writes, they are part of the right’s agenda to target sex workers, curb free expression, and reshape digital labor.
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"...it raises questions about the degree to which a powerful business is able to bend regulatory guardrails to its will and skirt proper oversight, especially as Musk’s consortium of companies become increasingly intertwined with Nevada’s economy." https://t.co/OU8r7CadUs
After two Las Vegas firefighters were chemically burned in Boring Company’s Vegas Loop tunnels, Nevada OSHA issued $425K in safety citations. Then Gov. Lombardo’s office intervened, the fines were abruptly withdrawn, and records of the meeting were deleted, according to Fortune.