{"title": "EFF Is Not Opposing Age Verification Hard Enough", "timestamp": 1735340218.014804, "description": "I shall complain a little bit on a stance from EFF and how I think they should be pushing harder. Not so long ago [Australia decided to ban any platform where users can upload things, to anybody who is younger than 16 years](/articles/australias_ban_on_social_media_will_make_everything_worse). This is an ageist, [paternalistic](/about/glossary#paternalism) atrocity and has to be fought with viciousness. Yet EFF seem to only understand the secondary problems with this law.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film \"Moria's Race\" and the lead developer of it's game sequel \"Dani's Race\".\r\n\r\n[My Story](/about/who_is_blender_dumbass_)\r\n\r\nMore links to me ( view page source to see how I did those ):\r\n\r\n![internetarchive](https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22J.Y.Amihud%22) ![imdb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15214305) ![notabug](http://notabug.org/jyamihud) ![odysee](https://odysee.com/@blenderdumbass:f) ![codeberg](https://codeberg.org/blenderdumbass/)", "invited": ["AngryAlien", "Erwinjitsu", "trueauracoral", "Cricetus", "elban", "Troler", "johny", "RowdyJoe", "adgbeveridge", "doublelion", "alkyilcycloalke", "jedi66", "WanchaiMike", "Trolli123", "ddd", "ByteBlast", "dolphinana", "Madiator2011", "Uriel_Cohen", "mk-la", "TestUser", "Mr._MotherFucker", "MorsMortium", "cptbichez", "dbbs", "Xavi", "test", "Ozoned", "Tcll", "FranzoPow"], "invited_by": "blenderdumbass", "title": "Blender Dumbass", "website": "blenderdumbass.org", "mastodon": "@blenderdumbass@mastodon.online", "username": "blenderdumbass", "activity_pub": {"pub": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAupr+zzHFZXpPvayAbk8R\na3Yp2k+ymoI6IbfMkekWv5rTjrCBQRa1tcoy8o1cgxdFo/QYPb++s8+q4R/Xl4zV\nvSp40z1M6tI7zDQZv4BGInEqKgLpR5ahjqYVL4GVpYaw+FfQ3tc0J9Ui8/y/3HBX\nN5YzyaOpp0oxEW+tnnDHhHZSQ7G32MMWVL5DIZZKEAqxdgtw1s3sa2iAqcb3TSib\nCA1OvYQmPOicQS07/CVY+1OwKVKKV7CPNFk4SBYyCZ/CyC3Uujngl05jw9TpVR7T\n0WwVFijfMSSVFiBQmOQLFG0e4g8/XP+HvKDD8dB1PwreEAq+jrOBv6GvOgMOlGxi\nOQIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"}, "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/account/blenderdumbass"}, "thumbnail": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/thumbs/eff_not_enough.png", "license": "cc-by-sa", "views": {"amount": 105, "dates": {"2024-12-28": 30, "2024-12-29": 5, "2024-12-30": 5, "2024-12-31": 6, "2025-01-01": 2, "2025-01-03": 1, "2025-01-12": 11, "2025-01-13": 2, "2025-01-16": 1, "2025-01-20": 2, "2025-01-21": 1, "2025-02-01": 1, "2025-02-03": 1, "2025-02-05": 1, "2025-02-08": 1, "2025-02-17": 1, "2025-03-08": 1, "2025-03-09": 1, "2025-03-19": 1, "2025-03-29": 1, "2025-03-30": 5, "2025-03-31": 1, "2025-04-28": 3, "2025-05-19": 2, "2025-06-11": 1, "2025-06-19": 1, "2025-07-13": 1, "2025-09-27": 1, "2025-10-31": 1, "2025-12-27": 1, "2026-01-07": 1, "2026-01-23": 1, "2026-01-31": 1, "2026-02-16": 1, "2026-03-03": 1, "2026-03-06": 2, "2026-03-16": 1, "2026-03-17": 1, "2026-03-23": 1, "2026-04-28": 1, "2026-04-29": 1, "2026-05-05": 1}}, "recording": "https://archive.org/download/eff-is-not-oppsing-age-verification-hard-enough/Eff_Is_not_Oppsing_Age_Verification_Hard_Enough.ogg", "comments": {"comments": []}, "hashtags": ["EFF", "Australia", "Ageism", "Paternalism", "AgeVerification", "SocialMedia", "Privacy", "Freedom"], "is_reply_to": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/global-age-verification-measures-2024-year-review", "reply_to_data": {"title": "Global Age Verification Measures: 2024 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation", "description": "EFF has spent this year urging governments around the world, from Canada to Australia, to abandon their reckless plans to introduce age verification for a variety of online content under the guise of protecting children online. Mandatory age verification tools are surveillance systems that threaten...", "domain": "www.eff.org"}, "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/eff_is_not_opposing_age_verification_hard_enough"}