cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53166284
This law affects everyone, especially people in the EU and is an attempt to implement ID verification on: Video-sharing platforms, #AI chatbots, AI companions, games, software app stores and operating systems. https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/117285674482286098
We need to: #STOPEUKIDSACT NOW!
Fuckers don’t understand the internet
Oh they do. Not in the way we use it. But China&Russia gave them the handbook.
I think it’s important to point out that is yet again the EPP, this one being led by Henna Virkunnen.
As was the undemocratic vote that was pushed through by Roberta Metsola
The most effective way for all of us to stop these relentless attacks on the internet and our privacy, is to stop them getting elected in the first place.
EPP representation in each country.
Use the internet for something useful -
#STOP THE EPP
Of course Forza Italia is with EPP, In Italy we’ll never get rid of them :/
I’m fed up with this shit. My parents educated me on the internet and the potential of seeing things you don’t want to see. They knew there was no change to 100% block or monitor what we did and instead made sure that they were always there if we did see something disturbing.
Now I’m at the frontier age of getting kids and I just know that my kids will be just as smart in circumventing this kind of bs as I was (school monitoring web traffic ain’t working with a vpn) and I will gladly teach them about the internet. Hell, I’ll even take them back to when the internet of old and show what kind of crap we had to deal with.
Solutions like these are like a bandaid. You’re not solving the problems. And even that is a utopian thought, but they ought to focus on the people that make the web unsafe, not the kids
It is never about the kids.
Maybe we just protect everyone and then we don’t need age verification?
I hate when people validate the core idea of needing to protect children through age verification. Timmy lying about being over 18 to look at some boobs is not a problem that needs to be resolved. It’s like requiring everyone to wear body cameras specifically to prevent store clerks from being rude to you.
tbh, i’m more scared of the pedos that haunt roblox and every other platform for children rather them seeing boobs.
i don’t like age verification either, but that means my kids aren’t allowed to use the internet except in a very restricted fashion. meanwhile every single one of their peers is left to run wild, so they’re socially isolated as a result
don’t pretend internet anonymity is an unalloyed good. fuck, just look at the bot farms for a less rapey problem of enormous magnitude.
As a parent, you should be the one making sure to educate your child about the internet. If necessary, learn how to block websites on your router.
The governments job isn’t to require an ID to access the entire internet for something that a parent should be doing.
Hey Europeans, can you make your continent less cringe? Thanks.
Don’t throw stones from glass houses
