I suspect religious people would be irritated if their texts were labelled as hate speech. It would be politically a bad move if this turned out to be the case. That's why it's a "bad thing."
I think both of you could learn about the term "be the bigger man." How absolutely disappointing that you both react to each other with spiraling passive-aggression rather than sympathy or mutual understanding. Please, let's keep lemmy habitable.
Basically every language has situations like this. "plus” in French comes to mind. I think the worst one in English is particularly bad though -- "can" and "can't" pronounced nearly identically in my dialect.
If they were serious about privacy-preserving age verification, they'd be looking at zero-knowledge proofs. Since ZKP is not on the table, this is really about control and surveillance.
I don't really see how that's related. Even if it were motivated by racism, that'd be equally authoritarian to any other motive, since authoritarianism is about ceding rights from individuals to the government and it doesn't matter what the motivation for that is.
I suspect religious people would be irritated if their texts were labelled as hate speech. It would be politically a bad move if this turned out to be the case. That's why it's a "bad thing."