[banku_brougham]

This resonates. The after effects of age verification and the general exclusion of freedom loving coders is going to leave me standing here in the tumbleweeds with my 90s toyota and laptop with solar panels and unregulated radio frequencies my only communication with the outside world.

Its like those movies coming true. I've already had casual user accounts frozen just for accessing via VPN, or some other inscrutable reason.

[einr]

I'm with you and the only solace in this dystopia is the fact that I increasingly feel like I just don't care. I don't really like using computers anymore. I liked them when they represented freedom and creativity.

So fine, exclude me from all your platforms, there's nothing there for me. It's all bad content from bad people (or increasingly: not even people) running on bad software. I'm not giving up my freedom to partake in that, I'd rather just stop using your shit.

(But I would very much like to be able to pay my bills and buy my train tickets, so I'll play your game and have a smartphone. Fine. You win this round.).