First they started the process of bringing in age verification for using social media, supposedly to keep kids safe but really to make people less likely to do things like tweet “no more billionaires” in our increasingly oligarchic society. Now we are going to have to provide age verification to log on to things like Google search. The excuse as usual is “oh, won’t somebody please think of the children,” but what it’s really about is shutting people up and keeping them in the dark. If you are searching for the works of Karl Marx or some anarchist but work for a conservative outfit, do you really want the government to know you are doing such searches? Probably not, so why not take the safe option and not search at all? And sure, you can search without logging in to your Google account but how long will that last? Another ten years, at the most. And VPNs? Brazil’s loony Supreme Court tyrant Alexandre DeMoraes has already shown our tyrants how to get around that one — you simply make the use of VPNs to reach such sites illegal.
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