The official pretext for ID check laws is the so-called “pornography epidemic,” a moral panic that right-wing reactionaries blame for everything from falling birth rates to youth depression.

But age-gating laws are about much more than restricting porn- Republican lawmakers are using the infrastructural power of the Internet to build a surveillance & censorship machine.

Read the full paper here:

https://www.techpolicy.press/papers-please-the-republican-plan-to-wall-off-the-internet/