Post B6DrLoGz9dxLpaf46a by Numerfolt@kirche.social
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(DIR) Post #B6Do0jPZjb7OoGw8Ui by EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected. From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe. Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children. That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.More: https://link.europa.eu/pQ7Cp4
(DIR) Post #B6DoEHnjBbYFEQhHlI by onepict@chaos.social
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@EUCommission Yes absolutely, but not with age verification please.Hold providers like Meta and Alphabet to account.
(DIR) Post #B6DoJTW93IoV18wn3o by mray@social.tchncs.de
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@EUCommission Absolutely! Let's start by protecting them from online creeps insisting to knowing their age, or other personal information for that matter!
(DIR) Post #B6DoTuRDoiJNPEcUiG by theloopfarm@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission ah.... Safety, the best way to erode people's rights. Well played.
(DIR) Post #B6DozrZC1olNlcaKfY by penguinrebellion@tldr.nettime.org
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@EUCommission If you are serious about this, start regulating platforms.Instead of subjecting everybody to "verification" processes that lock adolescents out. Processes that merely enable platforms and their "partners" to collect more and more data about #EU citizens, destroying even the tiny bit of privacy that is still left.#AgeVerification
(DIR) Post #B6Dp4SrTJDj6aqKSEC by elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission I'm sure this was a very comprehensive poll that was in no way biased towards your insane policies. After all, no one is *against* children's protection. But everyone with half a brain is against the totalitarian regime you're building under the guise of "protecting the children".
(DIR) Post #B6DpIk6zy8zw9HOqnY by KickDownCH@swiss.social
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@EUCommission Complete right. But be aware, Age Verification will solve not a single problem that is listed on this site, but it will break a lot of basic laws and kill privacy.
(DIR) Post #B6DpNgYYcErWZMeBEm by dekompozycja@mastodon.com.pl
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@EUCommission typo alert: "all people deserve"
(DIR) Post #B6DpY68KNNisn5LM2a by gabrielmarkley@techhub.social
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@EUCommission Absolutely hold companies responsible. Protect freedom of information and access.
(DIR) Post #B6DpcywQXjEzvv6d3g by tripleman@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission If this involves age verification, you've been suckered by lobbyists for ad-tech firms.
(DIR) Post #B6DpjhM0KasdPiGvgG by jlperuyero@nobigtech.es
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@EUCommission The best way to protect children in digital and online environments is to end big tech's sacrosanct right to make obscene profits in any unregulated environment. Block commercial activity in insufficiently regulated systems, and legislate quickly in these cases! Enough of spending years looking at each other and approving the rule when the novelty has worn off, it is obsolete, and the big business is already elsewhere.
(DIR) Post #B6Dpq9jvhpgvBkXgVU by sunpig@mastodon.scot
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@EUCommission Yes, so please enforce regulations against the platforms rather than imposing restrictions on children. If what the platforms are doing is bad for children, they're bad for everyone else as well.Right now I'm far more concerned for my parents' safety online than for my kids' safety. Age isn't the problem.
(DIR) Post #B6DpwVfH6Q4kvPOWx6 by tunneltoast@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission please fix this with ISP’s and good parental modes on the ISP, and teach parents to be less digital illiterate, and teach them about parental mode on their ISP’s, not by letting everyone upload an ID to a central database or by scanning every message on a hidden list of keywords and hashes, that list can thus be abused…, unless its block chain and only independent childrens safety agencies are allowed to add hashes to it for example
(DIR) Post #B6DqGf5hlWLpx4Mm3M by rogue_cells@chaos.social
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@EUCommission Yet, instead of sanctioning Meta, X, etc. for their anti-democratic, predatory algorithms and business practices, you are engaging in age discrimination and victim blaming. Talk to the ones affected by your legislation, instead of pushing it on them without their participation in the process or their consent.Stop big tech from preying on all of us, instead of blocking children from accessing the services of our modern world#age_verification #discrimination #ageism #cyberfascism
(DIR) Post #B6DqLfY7UNHEoy2qNk by tunneltoast@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission without privacy there’s no checks on the people in power. Privacy is the foundation of accountability, without it, power goes unchecked. Think of journalists or politicians who can’t do research without sitting power knowing about it if there’s no privacy, look at China etc.
(DIR) Post #B6DqbmKs1dGcVAWrvU by The_Universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com
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@EUCommission 92% wanting something is a one thing, but how many % do agree on which method?
(DIR) Post #B6DqkxsCUx1AtJV1NI by gnemmi@mastodon.sdf.org
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@EUCommission absolutely!. Now start by scrutinizing Meta and Alphabet products designs and business models and practices!. Identify and ban those that expose children's safety and imperil their right to grow up free, safe and protected. We all know you have the funds, the human resources and expertise to do so and do it well. We are counting on you!Just don't ever forget to put the burden on the perpetrators, not on the victims. That's the way it works, not the other way around.
(DIR) Post #B6Dqr2VYBBuH0EnkuW by aprilfoo@piaille.fr
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@EUCommission Thanks to EC for our daily "Think of the children" dose, just in case. Perfect illustration today: the smartphone, the kids and the lock, what a nice way to set them (and the rest of us) "free".
(DIR) Post #B6DrJHw0PuTwxLe6kK by _slowly@infosec.exchange
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@EUCommission Then enforce the laws already! And please stop this age verification bs...
(DIR) Post #B6DrLoGz9dxLpaf46a by Numerfolt@kirche.social
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@onepict @EUCommission Yes, I agree. Please hold the actual service providers and big tech firms accountable that make lots of money off the citizens!
(DIR) Post #B6DrLoQCbNKSIAyQTI by EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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Thank you for your comments, @Numerfolt and @onepict. Holding tech companies accountable is exactly what we are doing, and will do more of. Check out our deep-dive on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEaEsJRENPE&t=2s
(DIR) Post #B6DrvUNsZtnoZWtnxA by el_haych2024@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission the systems and policies that a designed to protect vulnerable people should apply to all people.
(DIR) Post #B6DsHaG7PrcnABnx3o by EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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Hello @gnemmi!Yes, we are holding tech companies accountable. Our Digital Services Act gives us the legal means to do so. You can read more about it in this recent example: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-preliminarily-finds-meta-breach-digital-services-act-failing-prevent-minors-under-13
(DIR) Post #B6DsPnOCTvWoCeV5pA by murdoc@autistics.life
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@EUCommission Protecting children, in addition to being a high priority for most people, is also one of the fastest and reliable ways of eroding human rights and freedoms. And the vast majority of measures proposed to protect children don't even do so effectively, they are just disguised schemes to increase the power of the state and the wealth of the already wealthy by leveraging some of the strongest human emotions to manipulate people into agree with policies not in their best interests.
(DIR) Post #B6DsUw1tmiEWRrWHqq by khw@digitalcourage.social
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@EUCommissionBut not to be confused with surveillance
(DIR) Post #B6Dt0wpSLejUC5xsXo by DavidM_yeg@beige.party
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@EUCommission “Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use”And this principle applies for *everyone*The products must be made safe - for everyone. The providers must be made responsible - for everyone. The profiteers must be accountable - to everyone.The solution isn’t to wall children off from the world, it is to go back to building safe, decent, accountable society - starting with the wealthiest and most powerful.
(DIR) Post #B6Dt5dM6B59lFJT2ga by UkeleleEric@mstdn.social
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@EUCommission yea, I want children AND adults protected from exploitation and harm. But age verification is not going to help, it just gives commercial organisations and governments access to everyone's private information, making the whole mess worse, and not enabling children and adults to discover and use the tools they need to keep them safe, and also endangers all that information. Just one example, an abused child may not be able to access appropriate help without an abusing parent knowing
(DIR) Post #B6DtAgdzNWRitRFFWi by SalemsLot@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission Then hold service providers accountable. Dont destroy privacy to increase totalitarian control.
(DIR) Post #B6DtLQnwbq8QxB1bVY by usernomnomnom@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission @Numerfolt @onepict asking children and adults to identify themselves online isn't to hold tech companies responsible. Let's not implement this until the app uses ZKPs and has been thoroughly tested!
(DIR) Post #B6DtTvENMvoldTR8jY by tsenov@mastodon.online
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@EUCommission Are you trying to sell us mass surveillance again?
(DIR) Post #B6DtaOMjxVm9jXQywa by ranx@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission i think this is bullshite
(DIR) Post #B6DuuhGTVDsS5qkX9U by MaddieM4@raphus.social
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@onepict @EUCommission it is obvious to most people, even if this particular phrasing is mine, that you cannot "big tech companies collecting PII" your way out of a "big tech companies collecting PII" problem.The only real solution is for these companies to know less about us, and critically, to not know who is of age. Until you're ready to treat that as a core requirement to build the rest of your online privacy policy around, you're not taking the problem of surveillance capitalism seriously.
(DIR) Post #B6Dv48EabExwLPMmvo by gonzalo@neopaquita.es
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@EUCommission children are massively protected when providers are clean. Data mining, addictive design, fake information, hallucinated answers and trends created by generative IA. Start from there. Do not sugarcoat the seriousness of this topic by bringing a wrong solution such as age verification, please.
(DIR) Post #B6DvCUej7XeyCTZyaW by hidikem@piaille.fr
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@EUCommission and you immediatly ban them from internet to sell your "age verification" surveillance tool for palantir.Traitor
(DIR) Post #B6DvQDp6V6bs35ymPY by hidikem@piaille.fr
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@EUCommission @gnemmi yeah you old them accountable, by letting google take the control of the web with their last reCAPTCHA bullshit, and do nothing against their android lock down.they have bough you traitor
(DIR) Post #B6DvbG1qdnE04hCcEq by gnemmi@mastodon.sdf.org
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@EUCommission excellent article!. I know you have what it takes to solve the issues at stake.But, given Meta's ineffective and systematic failure to enforce their self imposed restrictions to prevent underage citizens from exposure to age-inappropriate experiences, wouldn't it be time to start thinking about taking away their right to do so and begin to impose them legislated planned restrictions in accordance to the law of the state instead of shifting the burden on the citizen's shoulders?
(DIR) Post #B6DvnqUssVugecmomu by lijepasam@vivaldi.net
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@EUCommission As an adult, I also want to feel safe and protected from harmful content, cyberbullying, and addictive online designs.
(DIR) Post #B6Dy7eHiC36kThCC6i by vekkq@vivaldi.net
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@EUCommission I'd be glad if children would be protected offline.Despite a duty of protection, schools often don't protect children from continued bullying.
(DIR) Post #B6E1HfMtJrLob45QwK by inctail@infosec.exchange
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@EUCommission Then maybe address it the right way, you write the following:the negative impact of social media on their mental health (93%), cyberbullying and online harassment (92%)These two are addressed if you go after the real problem, Big tech and their algorithms, not restrict citizens rights by making us send more information to them. assuring mechanisms to restrict age in appropriate content (92%).This is plain and simple parenting, all my children have iPhones, none of them have social media because I speak to them about the issues and set boundaries, now none of them want it.
(DIR) Post #B6E4Uv3ua4hQtiDiWO by BasieP@fosstodon.org
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@EUCommissionParents are responsible. Not companies.Also, digital safety doesn't allow for mass surveillance (called age verification)
(DIR) Post #B6E4cPBkyAfwMPSXAW by agremon@mastodon.gal
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@EUCommission Learned children can improve their own protection, isn't?
(DIR) Post #B6E5LgeAuGHHXPLMfo by stealthradek@mastodon.scot
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@EUCommission I think the original post is better if the word "children" is replaced with "everybody".There's no need to have a better, "separate" internet for kids so they will get a nasty surprise when they grow 18. Let's have it nicer for all, including children, shall we?
(DIR) Post #B6E5vHLiRLsBVGgHoG by neongod@mstdn.social
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@EUCommission You could dismantle the whole attention economy by making it impossible to offer their services for free while making their users the product. Just by regulation, without any tech.If for-profit social media would not be free, most kids would have no access. In fact, most adults would stop wasting their life there too. It would not only solve child safety, but make everyone’s life better. Without the need for age verification and building a surveillance state.
(DIR) Post #B6E62N87LWR5SVhdhY by Ryoma123@livellosegreto.it
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@EUCommission Avete toccato un tasto che qui, sul fediverso, non dovevate toccare.
(DIR) Post #B6E6PBt9J8ENFqaAK0 by JakeKb@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission @gnemmi Then why did Ursula von der Leyen scrap a fine to Google last week without any explanation? How is that holding them accountable for violating dsa?
(DIR) Post #B6E710uIaJVaCU9hBI by xjki@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission All is good but age verification systems are not the solution.
(DIR) Post #B6E7SSetVsU85a2QT2 by BroBot90001@mastodon.online
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@EUCommissionExcept that isn’t! You are actively assisting big tech with this move. Asking children and adults to identify themselves online isn't holding big tech companies responsible!Verifying who everyone is with government ids is not a solution. It’s a massive data breach waiting to happen. You are enabling much much more harm to children and everyone using the internet by pushing this narrative of verification. #chatcontrol #idverification #privacy #eu
(DIR) Post #B6E7gN8op6bh20fUmm by cid_terron@social.linux.pizza
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@EUCommission very high. Good.You've made quite a few laws ensuring child safety. Let's consider a law successful if children are safe.Have the unsuccessful tries been revoked and the incompetent supporters been removed?No - you definitely should. Child safety is important. But I consider abusing children for mass surveillance as child abuse.
(DIR) Post #B6E9WWQvcX7erYZO2y by rhoot@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@EUCommission by providing a method to verify that a person is an adult, you are implicitly also adding a method for bad actors to verify that someone is underage, and someone they can take advantage of. The only safe solution is for sites to know less about their visitors, not more.
(DIR) Post #B6EB81cwhnFOHGdaka by MyricaGale@mastodon.scot
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@EUCommission The social media areas should be exactly the same as the social areas in our towns and cities and general life. They should be (as far as possible) free from those who would cause harm to others, who cause offense or intimidation or violence toward other members of that society. It is up to the Tech companies to provide these safe spaces for all by policing their social areas and removing all those who exhibit criminal and anti-social behaviour no matter who they are.
(DIR) Post #B6ECVoFSCPudghYR60 by castrillo@mastodon.online
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@EUCommission no need to add my comment to share what I think about it. I think you guys know that this is NOT a solution, nor is it close to being anything like a "solution"
(DIR) Post #B6EI6ACmXbFZyvSWGm by PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission Hey, why not give all the evil companies doing wrong, and all the advertisers, everyone's ID forever and pretend we're not giving them the biggest gift they've ever had.I wonder how many people organizing this are on the take from the companies that will profit most from this criminal assault on privacy?
(DIR) Post #B6EIj9GZxtQWMcpBFg by DBG3D@masto.es
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@EUCommission @Numerfolt @onepictWhere are the bills of those fines? 🤔 Because you say you fined X, Meta, Google, Gandhi or Mother Theresa does not mean they paid. What was the money used for? American holidays for Ursula Von der Liar?We know how servile the #EU is with #USA and #Israel.This is not about the children. Is about CONTROL of everyone. Kindly remind us... How many times yoi tried to pass ChatControl law? Forbid those american companies to operate in Europe. If they wanted, they could open servers audited by the EU so they dont transfer data to a foreign countries. And usage of open source software. Auditable by anyone. Of course they never will do or allow that. Mother Ursula will be sure her american children eat alm the european data they can get. 🤬🤬🤬 And they must pay taxes on every country in the EU. No tax deduction allowed on any country of the EU. No Frontex. Erase that project. We don't want an European ICE. Be aware this is not America, and you can start a real revolution that you will not be able to stop. 😒 No fucking age verification, biometric authentication or health data given to foreign countries. And forbid social networks for non adults, your childrens safe as well.That is how it should be done.But you will not while you're the lap dogs of USA and Israel. Instead of the european citizens that elect the parties that put you there and pay your salaries with europen public money. Therefore you should be accountable for any problems that could arise of your wrong implementation in this issue.
(DIR) Post #B6EKF4fOhaChJqDis4 by joyandsadness@urbanists.social
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@EUCommission so spying on everybody it is and handing over our privacy to the tech bro's who are at fault in the first place for making it less safe. We do not have to ask if you lit are stupid but rather how much
(DIR) Post #B6ENWwyaKk1EXgPWeO by kikebenlloch@mastodon.social
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@EUCommissionNever gets old.🖌 John Jonik#cartoons #humor #vinhetas
(DIR) Post #B6ENk4pASw9OeCGUz2 by davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission So, are you actually holding tech platforms accountable?Or doing "age verification", forcibly identifying every user so you can conduct surveillance on those who don't agree with the government, and putting everyone's I.D.s online to be data-leaked?
(DIR) Post #B6EO37eMBUESufI2b2 by Dielectric_Boogaloo@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission you shouldn't be asking people to indetify themselves, make companies comply, not users.
(DIR) Post #B6EOHSRJgZ1tRf1gC8 by canleaf@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission Dear EU, this morning my email address was handled via dark web to some spammers, who tried to book a hotel in Saarbrucken, and two sex scammers tried to scam me with two emails from an unsecured microslop online system. There is no protection against nonsense like this. No ID verification would have stopped that. There are so many bad actors stealing our data and abusing trusted systems. Stop collecting IDs from lawful citizens. Do up cybersecurity.
(DIR) Post #B6EOSmoIHwWdoDAwTI by AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission "Europeans still report feeling personally impacted by:- fake news and disinformation (53%), - the misuse of personal data (47%), - insufficient protections for minors (41%)."Nobody wants the misuse of personal data, like age verification surveillance tech. Stop trying to make it happen. Anyone involved in the protection of minors online says age verification won't even protect children. It will just put everyone more at risk.
(DIR) Post #B6ER9cm9fj2R31jIFE by doneknitting@libretooth.gr
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@EUCommission age verification will not make a safer internet, not for children and not for adults.But how about making an internet where kids aren't bombarded with advertising? 🧐
(DIR) Post #B6EWkqGcyPNdNOY5wG by Kosimus@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@EUCommission yes, but there is always a but. It cannot be at the expense of adult users sacrificing their privacy. I am not responsible for other people's children. Leave taking care of children's digital safety to parents.
(DIR) Post #B6EXIK3dEaVXKGR1u4 by clickhere@mastodon.ie
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@EUCommission Guys, you are *so close* to actually getting it. (Hint: It is not "age verification" - aka. total digital surveillance.)
(DIR) Post #B6EZ46LLcugWe74HQW by zambezi@todon.nl
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@EUCommission You cuntsuckers love to hide behind children. Because who would dare speak out against them?! Who would dare risk making themselves out to be in favor of child abuse? But the reality is that continually you use children as a shield to justify sweeping reductions of fundamental rights. More and more, you justify exclusionary politics for the sake of control and gubernatorial stability—NOT safety. Not the safety of the children, that is. Not the safety of the children, nor the people who really matter, but the safety of an oppressive status quo which is destroying not only human autonomy, but the planet itself. Eat shit.The funniest part though? Is how you dont even realize—or care—that youre selling yourselves out to neo-reactionary postliberal authoritarians while championing "child safety". The very same companies are killing children in Palestine.
(DIR) Post #B6EzIQuUYPPHIN07CC by nyc@discuss.systems
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@EUCommission Bitte nicht durch Identitätsverletzung („Altersverifikation“).
(DIR) Post #B6F35RcZ01tnYHg2iG by ilja_tihhonov@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission nobody asked me...
(DIR) Post #B6FIaGgBEFpzuGWaNU by gabe@mendeddrum.org
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@EUCommission the only way to enforce age verification of minors is through total internet supervision of everybody. And it won't help with any of the problems on the internet, because facilitating and effectively rewarding terrible behaviour optimises the revenue of the main players.If you want a better internet, step one is to ban behaviour-based profiling for advertising, with no "consent" loophole. It makes surveillance ("tracking cookies") immediately illegal (no "legitimate interest" excuse, GDPR does the rest). That trashes the direct "more bullying and hate leads to greater revenue" connection, which immediately removes the incentive to put active effort into more vicious online spaces. This applies to Google, Meta, X, Reddit, etc.Note that the "consent is not an excuse" part is critical. "Ask me later" just means that people are worn down into clicking "yes" eventually, just to get it out of the way, you know yourself the dark patterns, you know yourself the cookie consent forms, where "none of them" is tedious and must be repeated on every visit, but "yes please" is simple and eternal. Try changing that decision later.Ban the surveillance. Yes, it's many companies' entire business model. That's too bad for them, should have tried being socially positive. Yes, many services will have to start some sort of subscription or pay per use model instead of being fake-free. That's OK, they'll also be disincentivised to enshittify.It'd make the internet better for everyone, including children, who could continue to find and create so many positive communities online, instead of being blanket-banned.
(DIR) Post #B6FLYgU8c25VE0pQ2q by mariob@liberdon.com
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@EUCommission Parents are responsible for their children's safety, not capitalist companies. So hands off my children!#chatControl #EUcorruption #surveillance #privacy #humanRights #freedom
(DIR) Post #B6FqjRbtM2m0r749LM by troy_frizzell@mstdn.social
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@EUCommission No one is buying your bullshit.The problem is not anonymity. The problem is the failure of big tech to moderate their platforms.Stop fucking blaming me. I don't own a global platform.Fuck off. You can't have my ID.
(DIR) Post #B6G4RaKJbgTm2FDsI4 by jernej__s@infosec.exchange
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@EUCommission … and the small price to pay for this is total and complete destruction of privacy and anonymity on the internet?
(DIR) Post #B6GBsc4Lw3p6wBajrc by estibensito_@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission yes but let us be very and I mean very clear about this, chat control and age verification is not the right path forward. That is blatant infringement of privacy of every European citizen.
(DIR) Post #B6GPwhnBztXpCjPVui by Kdude@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission 👎🏼 for age verification (= identification of everyone..)Regulate (Big Tech/) companies, not innocent people.
(DIR) Post #B6GQS1wv6XEChGthh2 by theloopfarm@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission Educate parents rather than legislating rights away.
(DIR) Post #B6GR4IWNwEzv69jWHw by swieczkos@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission Stop acting as parents to my children. The EU really doesn’t need to restrict the civil rights of all Europeans in an attempt to raise and protect my children. I can manage on my own. The only thing that would be useful is for big tech companies to be held genuinely accountable for the rubbish they share. Oh, and for the EU to stop burying its head in the sand and start imposing fines on big tech companies where they’re due.
(DIR) Post #B6HVV7j4mEkgPWfzOa by rhiig@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission Absolutely! Protecting children, whether it be online or offline should be one of the, if not the highest priority of the EU. Neither age verification nor chat control do that though.They don't prevent children from accessing things they aren't supposed to access and doesn't prevent bad people from hurting children. Both will find a way."If privacy is outlawed only outlaws will have privacy"- Phil Zimmermann
(DIR) Post #B6JDLW4bzPpAATwFOq by lexihexi@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission Age verification does the exact opposite of protecting children
(DIR) Post #B6LgVH5vox6RaxTt8i by Kurosetii@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission oh yeah lets protect children with "chat control" hell yeah
(DIR) Post #B6LjyHYtSkirIvYEwy by cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza
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@EUCommission have you tried asking people if they are also tired of how many times the "think of the children" excuse has been used to push for other shit that hasn't done anything to protect children at all, and instead made things worse for them?
(DIR) Post #B6LkNbqDCZRTRHjEum by elrohir@mastodon.gal
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@EUCommission If I go to the doctor with a broken arm and they ask if I want my arm to be healthy and safe, I say yes. But if they ask if I want a heart transplant to heal my arm, I'd say no because a heart transplant is a very high risk last resort measure and it doesn't even have any provable relation with healing broken arms.The existence of these valid concerns does not legitimize surveillance laws.
(DIR) Post #B6OQyows14mHCFBn7o by clock@net.miaumuh.ch
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@EUCommission Age verification is IMO discrimination and ageism and grossly tramples the basic human and constitutional fundamental right to freedom of expression and seriously impinges upon the ability to socialize. I think it's an authoritarian attempt to prevent people from rightfully and freely organizing and exchanging ideas.#discrimination #ageism #ageverification #humanright #freedomofexpression #youth #children #freedom #righttoassembly #organizing
(DIR) Post #B6PznblUNpMEg1DMRs by eswag@dju.social
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@EUCommission Agree that protecting children online is important. The way to do that is absolutely not to track all citizens in all online interactions. On the contrary, permitting profit-motivated private 3rd parties to do this incentivises precisely the kinds of surveillance capitalism driven algorithmic content delivery that is shown to demolish the mental health of all who come into contact with it, not just children.Anonymity online (making surveillance illegal) and education, protects.
(DIR) Post #B6fGQKsQ6Awnar5uoS by Daniel_Blake@mastodon.top
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@EUCommission