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

Man this is fucking exhausting. The treadmill of these policies.

EU lemmings, who or what groups are promoting these? It feels like every time one gets defeated another crops up and that it's relentless. Is this an astroturfed or organic campaign?

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

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.

It is unclear which servers are covered. The draft adopts the definition of a social network from the Digital Markets Act. Its Recital 11 clarifies that it concerns “information society services,” which EU law defines as services generally provided for remuneration. Whether a private, non-commercial hobby server falls under this depends on the legal classification of the specific offering. The statement that every instance without exception is covered is therefore an overstatement.

Funny when the article itself contradicts the breathless clickbait headline.

That said, perhaps this will apply and cause problems. Or perhaps not.

Fuckers don't understand the internet

Maybe we just protect everyone and then we don't need age verification?

If it applies to mastodon it also applies to IMAP right? I wonder his exactly they see email protocol being updated to check how old is the recipient and i bet all those spammers will NOT send their unwanted content to my child inbox.

The way it's imposed on the fediverse is bad, but I like this part:

The Blueprint is open source and uses zero-knowledge proofs: cryptographic methods that prove a statement like “over 15” without revealing the underlying data. Each member state must provide at least one such solution free of charge to its citizens.

Website wants to open my DRM software? Fuck off.

I feel all of this is to prepare for future legal enforcement of approved internet use. AI is destroying the internet we know and value because rich people want more power, as they do with everything they touch.