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Online ID Checks Will Ruin the Internet: 90 Reproductive Rights, LGBTQ, Civil Rights Groups Speak Up Against Widespread Age Verification Bills
This letter was led and organized by Fight for the Future, which is organizing actions against invasive ID checks through stoponlineIDchecks.org. A broad coalition of organizations dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access, rights for youth, privacy, and freedom of speech have issued a letter to US lawmakers warning that online ID check bills, which would […]
A broad coalition of organizations dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access, rights for youth, privacy, and freedom of speech have issued a letter to US lawmakers warning that online ID check bills, which would mandate highly privacy-invasive age verification through third party companies, would threaten freedom of information, the very usability of the internet, and sacrifice digital privacy, along with sacrificing the young people these laws claim to protect. “We talk constantly in this country, at every level of government, about how to protect kids: a good goal, with very little consensus on what that actually looks like,” said Sarah Philips, campaigner at Fight for the Future. “Online ID checking bills are yet another tool in the explicitly and increasingly fascist government efforts to suppress speech, target activists, and exert control over private businesses and individuals,” said Ría Thompson-Washington, President of National Lawyers Guild.
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