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We now live in an age where software controls the user, instead of the other way around. It is now an instrument of surveillance and control, instead of liberation.
Age verification is a violation of the user’s rights of the highest order, and using “protecting children” as a justification is a disgusting and egregious hypocrisy.
This is the end of digital privacy.
When did you ever actually believe users controlled software again?
Before the internet became de rigueur, more or less. So much of this kind of top-down-control culture has oozed into the PC world by showing up on phones -- those always-on, internet-connected devices -- first.
So when AT&T owned telecommunications?
Don't really know what they're talking about. Software has existed as an industry longer than it was a community. And the industry pushed back hard on the idea of software freedom in the early days.
Precisely why I am questioning wuffah. I want know when, if ever, e experienced such a thing. Because from my recollection, software was always under the control of the seller.