Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online

I'm glad EFF's people have the guts to fight this. This debate is very emotionally charged and I think many reasonable people are uncomfortable with the legal panopticon being constructed to "protect the kids" but they're afraid to speak out.

Christopher Cabaldon had a great monologue during CA's social media ban hearing the other day:

> And so I think one thing I've learned here is that when something's framed up as let's do it for the kids, let's do it to stop murderers and rapists, or let's stick it to the big corporations, all of those are important. Those are important objectives, but they can sometimes cause us to stop thinking about what's the actual policy underneath.

https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/279699#t=80...

And yet, he still didn't vote "no" on it but abstained.

In other news today (just received), "Collective works of acclaimed genius finally published". News not submitted, because it is a sad distraction to focus on the uplifting and the achievement of the Great when some are trying to build a world in which only humble beasts will have liberty.

We need an opt-out, in which animals create their own "society" while We live separated and factually unconcerned.