Age verification can be protested and stopped.
For those who don't know, Fortune A Day can be found on Pillowfort and Bluesky. Updates might stop on Bluesky as it appears the app is rolling out age verification more widely ahead of actual regulation.
They are complying in advance for no reason.
Even if all these age verification laws were fully on the books in every US state, websites should still stand up for their businesses and the privacy of their users and not comply. That is a choice at scale if they would only fucking care to make it.
Bluesky's age verification is being handled by Veriff, a company that has already failed to protect peoples' data. There are data-hungry companies out there begging for websites and apps to comply with age verification ahead of time, calling it an inevitability, because they want to pump and dump our public and private identifying info. Naturally, protecting that data is not at all a concern to them. Lawsuits will be a slap on the wrist; they'll be the price of doing business and your information will continue to leak while they make millions of dollars off of it.
If you are in the US, please do this for all of us:
Contact your representatives TODAY, June 29, 2026, to tell them to vote NO on the KIDS Act, HR 7757.
Here's more information through the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And this page has a way to send a form letter to your rep via email.
Do this right now. HR 7757 is being voted on today.
Phone calls are best and they can be incredibly quick. The person at your rep's office will answer the phone. They'll want your name and your location to confirm that you're a constituent. Simply tell them this and then: "I just want my representative not to vote for HR 7757, the KIDS Act. I know that it does nothing to actually protect children. It's about selling my information and stopping free speech." Thank them. Hang up. It is genuinely easy, even with phone anxiety.
Say No To Bad Internet Bills also has even more you can do to stop these things because there is an absolute deluge of these kinds of bills working their way through the US Congress right now.
Again: These bills are not about protecting children. They want to identify you online so they can prosecute you if you say something they don't like. They want to sell your data. They want kids who need community outside of abusive situations to not be able to find it. They want to clamp down on free speech and the movement of ideas.
