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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Now 4chan becomes the face of resistance to this shit, and people will think it is only being opposed by a bunch of deplorable incels. It delegitimizes the entire opposition - you can't speak out against it any more without being associated with 4chan and whatever the fuck kiwi farm is.

At least that's the risk, and that's why I wish these sites would go die in a hole rather than involve themselves with things I care about.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 days ago

whatever the fuck kiwi farm is.

Nazis.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Tbh, I don't know why a push by more left leaning sites hasn't happened? This would at the very least show the broader unpopularity of the age verification law among pretty much both sides.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 14 hours ago

One problem is that quite a lot of left leaning people support this. Certainly in the UK the Labour Party has been paternalistic for a long time, thinking that the public are not able to look after themselves when it comes to having liberties. On issues like this there's little between labour and Tories, with them swapping places quite frequently.

We haven't had a socially liberal government in 70 years at least.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Because they have too much shame.

It takes the shameless to stand for freedom most of the time.

Which means frequently it's the worse kinds of people, the loudest and the most shameless. Who start. Others then follow once the ice is broken.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's a left leaning site that has lots of 'adult' or 'harmful' content?

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I guess the parts of the fediverse that allows adult content. There's a lot of people on the fediverse dedicated to supporting sex workers and stuff like that. None of these sites or users are in a position to sue the UK though, I'm just giving a pedantic answer to your question.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, everyone and their dog should jump on this.