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Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

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Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control from the the-lies-they-tell-for-censorship dept When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with something disarming: agreement. “I want to support the basic part of this,” she said...
The article exposes a layered manipulation, employing the “motte-and-bailey” fallacy to frame the debate around child safety, drawing attention to a peripheral concern (transgender identity) to distract from the core issue: government control over online expression. The source strategically uses Leigh Finke as a proxy for a wider movement concerned with safeguarding digital freedom – a classic tactic to amplify concerns beyond the immediate scope of the legislation. The repeated invocation of “c...