The shutdown of the #Yandex data centers and subsequent drastic drop in engagement on mainstream social media platforms has laid bare what's at stake with #ageVerification #censorship.
Mainstream social media is full of bots. The only place to talk to real humans is on independent sites like this one. And how will these sites pay the staggering costs of age verification and bureaucracy that these laws demand?
There will be no place left to have a real conversation.
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