The goal isn't to protect children, the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.
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The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.Some politicians have already stated this plainly.
This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.
This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.
This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.
This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.
This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.
Do not let them do this to us.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights
@Em0nM4stodon because we cannot encrypt WhatsApp messages and send base64 over Whatsapp protocol? Just see these end to end eNcRyPtEd systems as plain old good SMTP. Then just apply S/MIME on top of it.
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@Em0nM4stodon In the US, we need to fight against KOSA, which is advancing in our legislature.
The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
This bill won’t bother big tech. Large companies will be able to manage this regulation, which is why Apple and X have agreed to support it. In fact, X helped negotiate the text of the last version of this bill we saw. Meanwhile, those companies’ smaller competitors will be left scrambling to comply. Under KOSA, a small platform hosting mental health discussion boards will be just as vulnerable as Meta or TikTok—but much less able to defend itself.
The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some degree, all of us—should be allowed to read online. KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
@unfinishedsymphony @Em0nM4stodon as someone from the UK I am appalled that this law was implemented, it will do nothing but harm. I see no good coming out of it
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@LukefromDC
We only need to start with developer participation in a #CyberRiot and supporters applying pressure on them to do so. The entire world runs on #FOSS projects held together by core teams of a handful of people. We can begin the fight from the core outwards this time because we already control that space.
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@LukefromDC @Em0nM4stodon Oh don't misunderstand. I don't mean the ones pushing these bills forward. I mean basically everyone else but them. All the people who actually foolishly believe this is all to somehow help children and not, you know, getting a bunch of kids and adults hurt or killed.
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@nazokiyoubinbou
The only care they have for children is the type that lands them in the Epstein files.
@Em0nM4stodon@tuga @Em0nM4stodon I don't mean the ones pushing the bills, I mean the ones who actually convince themselves they somehow help children somehow and vote for them.
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The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.Some politicians have already stated this plainly.
This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.
This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.
This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.
This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.
This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.
Do not let them do this to us.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights
@Em0nM4stodon yep, even if some of laws did not start this way, intent has been telegraphed many times.
This shall not pass, but also there should be very VERY LOUD NO. -
@Em0nM4stodon In the US, we need to fight against KOSA, which is advancing in our legislature.
The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
This bill won’t bother big tech. Large companies will be able to manage this regulation, which is why Apple and X have agreed to support it. In fact, X helped negotiate the text of the last version of this bill we saw. Meanwhile, those companies’ smaller competitors will be left scrambling to comply. Under KOSA, a small platform hosting mental health discussion boards will be just as vulnerable as Meta or TikTok—but much less able to defend itself.
The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some degree, all of us—should be allowed to read online. KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
@unfinishedsymphony @Em0nM4stodon Goodness please do! The UK's Online Safety Act has been a disaster!
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