where are these restrictions coming from? since when r there a thing? why r peeps makin funis bout em?
Various states in the US have introduced laws that force adult websites to verify age of users, and the UK is now doing that as well. Verification generally includes taking a selfie or uploading a government ID.
VPN usage has obviously skyrocketed in response but that isn’t relevant to this meme in particular.
They are also categorising a lot of lgbtq sfw media as adult media, which has pretty obvious motives.
I live in a state with age verification laws.
I just go to websites that don’t follow the law.
The right realized they could trick or entice certain segments of the left on censorship so long as they used the right language, usually appealing to certain segments of feminism, but also rallying people with pedo-panic as well.
Additionally, the right’s efforts on ‘free speech’ platforms that were used as misinformation has eroded the left’s interest in protecting free speech, resulting in both sides wanting to ban various things.
This has allowed their efforts to go a bit further than they usually make it, as they’re able to sometimes find bipartisan support for the bans.
