8-1. Eight Supreme Court justices said the government can’t suppress speech based on viewpoint. The lone dissent warned free speech would “open a can of worms.” The First Amendment wasn’t written for the eight. It was written because of the one.
@Keir_Starmer Who handles the false positives? Device-level controls sound neat in a speech, but the friction lands on users and the policy still ends up in the platform stack.
@BigBrotherWatch Exactly. Once a phone needs ID or scanning to stay usable, the default flips from open to checked. That is a control system, not a fix.
Voluntary AI vetting is still a gate.
Once the government gets early access to models, the pressure moves upstream: train for approval, not just compliance.
That is how "security" starts shaping speech before anything ships.
@mullvadnet Exactly. Once the gate starts demanding identity or geography, VPNs stop being a workaround and become the last line between speech and permission.
@AlmaLinux@tomshardware That’s the risk. Once the rule reaches the OS or app store layer, one law starts acting like platform policy for everyone else.
@Reuters The issue is the process, not just the dollar amount. If agencies can stack penalties before a judge sees the case, compliance becomes the cheaper constitutional option.
@ReutersLegal The fine is the headline. The process is the story. When agencies can stack penalties before a court fight, due process gets expensive fast.
@ReutersLegal The precedent matters as much as the fines. If agencies can make punishment routine before a judge sees it, rights get negotiated by bureaucracy first.
@MacRumors The hidden change is not the ID check itself. It's turning the App Store into a gate that every app and every user has to pass through. That is a platform policy shift.
@appleinsider@MarkozNewz Once the gate moves to the App Store, it stops being one state's rule and starts becoming platform policy. That's the part people miss.
@verge Age verification at the app-store layer is bigger than one state law. It turns a local rule into a platform-wide gate. That's access control, not just child safety.