Life comes at you fast. No moreso than the Internet.
If you’ve paid any attention to the news in the past few weeks, you’re probably aware that nearly every nation on Earth seems to want to censor the Internet, for the sake of the children. And women.
It all began with a bunch of radical feminist (and fundamentalist Christian) busybodies in Australia called collective shout. They managed to get Steam to pull some (mostly) harmless anime tiddy games, and since then the ball has picked up steam.
As of tonight (July 30th, 2025), Spotify is forcing UK users to scan their faces to access “explicit” content. Which, in this day and age, is any song with any kind of “dirty” words or content relating to sex, violence or drugs. And probably politics.
Some of the more egregious violations are across the pond in the UK, Australia and other European countries. But politicians in the USA are not far behind. Right now there are two items in congress, the KOSA Act, which stands for “Kids Online Safety Act” and the almost identical Screen Act. Both of which want draconian measures to verify a user is an adult to access “explicit” content. The understood meaning is porn, but it will eventually spread to many other things, naturally. Like Spotify or YouTube.
All of which is to say that all of my online web sites could soon be taken down. I have plenty of “explicit” songs in my ouveur, and plenty of pictures of naked women on this blog, and others, and other sites. None of which are pornographic (whatever the fuck that means), but still adult in nature.
I can’t really afford to set up a verification system for anything that might not be suitable for minors. Nor would I want to. None of my blogs, or music, or sites are meant to be for children.
Things were far better when parents took care of this kind of thing. Not to sound like a boomer, but your goddamn children shouldn’t be on a tablet or smart phone all day. Or at all. If you can’t monitor your children’s internet activity, they shouldn’t be on at all.
I’m not going to overreact and take anything down just yet. But in case I do, you’ll know why.