Age verification is identity verification, plain and simple.
By announcing that it won’t enforce the prohibition against collecting children’s personal data online when it is done for age verification purposes, the government admits what we’ve been saying all along: Age-gating the internet means forcing you to hand over your ID, sacrifice your anonymity, and put your sensitive data at risk.
We’re routinely told to be worried about data collection — and for good reason. Data leaks are rampant and the privacy of information, once collected, cannot be guaranteed. Not by platforms. Not by the government.
Recent government fishing expeditions into the online data of its critics put the danger of making it easier to track down dissenting voices in stark relief. This “papers, please” approach to going online is fundamentally at odds with the free speech rights, privacy, and security of all Americans.
The US relies heavily on democratic checks in order to minimize abuse and overreach in the enforcement of laws. Those checks don't appear to be working.
@billyez2 Samantha is a pillar of western civilization !! Absolutely watch it but skip the reboot — it lacks the original’s mischief and panache (…maybe until Kim Catrall returns).
Congratulations to my good friends at @NetChoice ! 🎉
While SCOTUS did not definitively rule on the merits of our challenges, the reasoning reaffirms the 1A applies with full force to the internet — freedoms of speech and press do not diminish when exercised over social media.
Today is my last day at @NetChoice .
I couldn't be prouder of what we accomplished in the last two years, nor more grateful for my colleagues-turned-friends (special att’n: @ChrisMarchese9 and @Paul_Taske )!
Looking forward to starting a clerkship at the end of summer.
@moflatley@NetChoice@ChrisMarchese9@Paul_Taske Maureen! Working with you was truly one of my greatest joys in this role. I will be closely following your amazing work from afar this year. ❤️
@ChrisMarchese9 😭😭😭
obsessed with you — you’re one of the best things that’s ever happened to me in this amazing (and strange) town.
ps: never going to stop needing you to SET MY SCENE — it just might have to take place in a corn field for a hot second ❤️🌽