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The current push for age restrictions on certain online content in the US echoes the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which was struck down by SCOTUS in 1997

New York Times : Mastodon: @kashhill@mastodon.social . Tweets: @amarisllis and @kashhill Mastodon: @kashhill@mastodon.social : Lawmakers worried about the internet's effects on young brains have proposed age requirements for porn and other “harmful” online content.  This isn't the first national panic about the internet & kids. … Tweets: @amarisllis : None of these articles mention the really terrifying part of this which is the timely link between attempting to destroy all anonymity on the internet (the side effect of these laws) and the simultaneous targeted persecution of women, lgbtq+ people, black people, etc etc https://twitter.com/... @kashhill : In which we revisit the time that the @ACLU posted a quiz to its website inviting people to guess the seven dirtiest words in the English language as provided in a George Carlin riff that launched a Supreme Court case (twice, depending on how you count). https://twitter.com/...

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  • @kashhill@mastodon.social @kashhill@mastodon.social on mastodon
    Lawmakers worried about the internet's effects on young brains have proposed age requirements for porn and other “harmful” online content.  This isn't the first national panic about the internet & kids. …
  • @amarisllis @amarisllis on x
    None of these articles mention the really terrifying part of this which is the timely link between attempting to destroy all anonymity on the internet (the side effect of these laws) and the simultaneous targeted persecution of women, lgbtq+ people, black people, etc etc https://…
  • @kashhill @kashhill on x
    In which we revisit the time that the @ACLU posted a quiz to its website inviting people to guess the seven dirtiest words in the English language as provided in a George Carlin riff that launched a Supreme Court case (twice, depending on how you count). https://twitter.com/...