If they doing this might as well ban books also for harmful content to children:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
You mean sharing their real identity with online companies who will sell and/or lose it to hackers doesn’t make children sAfE oNLinE??!!?!11?!
Hopefully this will happen sooner than later and change people’s minds about the whole thing.
If the recent Tea App crap is anything to go by doesn’t even require a hacker for someone to gain access to your info. Just takes more companies using AI to build shit without security and someone will just happen to find their open to the public firebase bucket.
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Obviously emotive reason for an outright erosion of personal liberty and freedom, shocked Pikachu is shocked
It will make kids really good at bypassing the restrictions that get put in place, which will probably require them to go to some of the shadier places on the web, which could put them in more danger.
The people who made these rules don’t understand the fundamental rule of the internet: any online restriction put in place, can be overcome with tools and knowledge that are also readily available on the Internet
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it” John Gilmore
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Obviously not, but it’s not like they’re gonna be honest and call it the UK Online Spying Act.
failure to comply could result in fines of up to 10% of global revenue or courts blocking services
So most federated platforms should be fine, as they don’t have any revenue(usually) and blocking is hard because DNS is easy to bypass and there just are so many instances already.
This might actually make people move to Lemmy nice.
Big not a lawyer caveat but if it is revenue then likely not. That would be all money collected before expenses which I could see including donations collected for server expenses.
Donations are considered revenue. However, depending on the receiving entity, they could be qualified differently.
Well, they don’t care, because this is a good reason to start total control. Or they just want to raise a submissive generation of obedient dogs who don’t know what it means to fight back or bite or think critically. China by the way is a great example of the alpha version of the shit that can await us.
Prob should double down the efforts rather than scrap it then right?
Makes identity theft much more likely though
And identity theft is not a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year!
Well, who’d have thought.
Those measures never did.
A bureaucratic regulation doesn’t actually do what it purports to do, and which is the entire point of it’s existence?
No way.
Who could’ve forseen that?!
Surely nobody who is not doing anything online which is or will ever be until the day they die deemed morally objectionable by those with access to those databases or those with power over anything on their lives who can be provided directly or indirectly with data from those databases, have nothing to fear from this.
Has anyone got any half decent ideas for how to improve age verification? Obvs without this draconian shit.
I had a thought once about doing it with NFTs, where a company could independently verify you with certain metadata, like ‘is human’ or ‘is over 18’ etc. Then you get issued your token, and these sites can verify you without de-anoninising you.
Not sure if that’s a naff idea, but would be interested to know if anyone’s got anything better
The EU has something in the works with zero knowledge proofs. Which would be a good way to do this.
I still don’t agree on the fact that this needs doing at all… But at least it’s not as bad as the UK’s half-baked nonsense
It doesn’t need to exist at all. Parents should take responsibility for their children’s internet usage.
