You just gotta love how liberal ‘democracies’ are now openly doing what they fear mongered about China this whole time.
Here’s an idea: how about parents don’t give their kids internet access the second they’re ejected from the womb and actually monitor how they use electronic devices instead? Why do these lawmakers insist on making this everyone else’s problem?
Surely you know they’re just using that as a way to get people to accept it. They don’t care about the children - except as a source of revenue.
No, I’m aware. This is essentially “think of the children”, take #894561.
we know that it’s always either “think of the children” or “terrorism” but a huge majority don’t, so we need to say it each time on the off chance that they pay attention beyond the headline… for once.
I can’t wait for all the useful idiots to cheer this on as the Epstein class further criminalizes internet anonymity under the guise of “protecting the children”.
Soon we have no assets because everything is subscription and no freedom because ‘of the children’. Before people comment ‘it’s like China’, at least China is honest why it is restricting the internet. And if course in Europe the politicians are exempt, just like with the chat control law. This is such a dangerous development all over the world.
EU is considering banning religions to protect the children from genital mutilation our sexual abuse
Religious instutions have social power so they can abuse with impunity
The classic EU, two steps forward one big step backwards, approach to policies.
Which forward steps are you referring to in this context? Starting with a head start (compared to the USA’s Internet laws) doesn’t count as moving forward.
Who is using the VPNs, though? That they bypass restrictions does not necessarily imply that all people using them are children. Of course, they’ll disregard any possible interpretations that would be counter to their narrative.
It doesn’t sound as if they want to ban them, but to introduce age-verification for using VPNs.
Which also would be bad, but not quite so ridiculously insane as your post heading states.It’s bullshit. Children cannot buy an internet connection in the first place. Dont let the state lie to you about age-verification, it’s identity verification, they want to know who is doing what, age has nothing to do with it.
It’s bullshit.
Yes, you are right, it is.
(although the “children can’t buy internet” argument that turns up every time this topics are discussed, is also bullshit).it’s identity verification
Yep, totally. End of anonymous use of the internet is the wet dream of some (primarily conservative) politicians.
But this has not been the point of my comment.
Rather that distributing fake news (“want to ban VPNs”) doesn’t magically become the right thing to do because the cause is a righteous one.(The) argument that (children can’t buy internet) (…) is also bullshit
You can’t just say it’s bullshit and not provide a counter argument. Are you insinuating that children will use their parent’s internet? Fine, but how does that change for VPNs? They can’t buy a VPN subscription either, so they would have to use their parent’s VPN accounts, and then the age verification has been bypassed anyway.
The idea itself is terrible, independent of age. It always starts with something like this and before you know, it gets expanded. Because a lot of people are like you: ‘don’t worry. It will be alright. Doesn’t impact us’. The same for chat control.
Yes, I totally agree with you there.
The more important it is to keep our stuff together and not distribute false facts, as this will just let people think “oh, just another lying clickbait post on lemmy”.
That was the actual point of my comment.
