Evan Greer

Welp, I somehow deleted my original post, so... can y'all do me a big favor and pretend this is brand new & react with surprised excitement and give it a reskeet? My new song $5 featuring my alt-rock heroes @eve6.bsky.social is out now! New album AMAB/ACAB 9/19/25 on @getbetterrecords.bsky.social!

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

"you can't go get a new face" -me

meep it's bandcamp friday and i have yet to shamelessly promote my own music. um, go buy some of my music please? here's a photo of Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine holding my album so you know i am cool please think i'm cool? evangreer.bandcamp.com

She also explained why mandatory age verification is a terrible idea. Does this mean E&C Dems now oppose it?

working on a punked up studio version of this earnest lil protest banger. stay tuned

i would respect organizations like @fairplayforkids.bsky.social so much more if they would just come out and admit that they are pro-censorship. like, reasonable people can believe that keeping kids away from harmful content is worth collateral damage to speech. just own that that's your position

This is exactly right. Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less. We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation. Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.

so you oppose the bill now because they removed the (harmful, poorly drafted) duty of care but not before when it would just get trans kids killed? cool. cool. seems like you've got your priorities straight.

I think it's okay to believe keeping teens off the Internet is so important it's worth subjecting everyone to "papers please" ID checks everywhere they go online. I just think people who believe that should have to acknowledge they are okay with activists & journalists being tortured and murdered 🤷‍♀️

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