What happened to the assumtion that people on the internet are all adults. No kid is signing a contract for a phone or internet plan. They are on the internet through the permission of an adult who has. Its the responsibility of that adult to make sure they don’t do anything they shouldn’t. Don’t make it other people’s problem that you can’t control your kids. We shouldn’t try to kid-proof the world.
It’s never really about protecting children. It’s about making sure the government can monitor everything you do online and tie it back to your real-world identity. Encrypted channels are to be eliminated. The government wants to hear every word and see every action. And age verification is an excuse to demand ID.
Traditionally this kind of surveillance has focused on left-wing and environmentalist movements, anything that challenges the interests of capital. Today it will be the same, but with a side helping of transphobia and the looming threat of all this material falling into the hands of fascists within a few years, something that everyone but the terminally dull Keir Starmer can see coming.
Decades passed and its not even remotely true anymore? Never really was tbh. Anonymity on the net is on its last legs thanks to adoption by the masse show need training wheels and rubber corners and a fence to not hurt themselves.
show need training wheels and rubber corners and a fence to not hurt themselves.
Dangers in the internet:
- lies about some product (adverts)
- lies about things (misinformation)
- scammers abusing gathered/leaked data
There’s no need to supervise users. There’s a need to crack down on abusive hosters. You can’t make the internet more safe otherwise.
What they do here is either symbol politics or they do this to get more power over their people.
Its still unclear to me why all these countries are attempting this legislation at the same time.
It’s being pushed in a bunch of countries by the same group of authoritarian billionaires.
But why? And why now? Why do they even care about vpns and ages l *all of a sudden *? What are they up to!?
They want to control what information people have access to and want to feed us propaganda to keep us doing things that make them richer and will put and keep them in control of economic policies.
This isn’t sudden, it’s been brewing in the background for years.
They’re up to fascism.
Aaah Monarchies. Isnt that fun having none elected people be allowed to decide and make laws /s
The King doesn’t make the laws in this country anymore, for more information, read here.
The house of lords is nobility and unelected as well
You have me there on the unelected, but they’re (mostly) not nobility (anymore).
Welcome to the UK, where everything is fucked and there’s loopholes everywhere.
Inevitable but stupid.
These outdated troglodytes in the cushy retirement home probably wouldn’t know what a VPN was if you explained to them. Half the time they’re asleep on the bench dreaming of days gone by.
