What happened to the assumtion that people on the internet are all adults. No kid is signing a contract for a phone or internet plan. They are on the internet through the permission of an adult who has. Its the responsibility of that adult to make sure they don’t do anything they shouldn’t. Don’t make it other people’s problem that you can’t control your kids. We shouldn’t try to kid-proof the world.
Decades passed and its not even remotely true anymore? Never really was tbh. Anonymity on the net is on its last legs thanks to adoption by the masse show need training wheels and rubber corners and a fence to not hurt themselves.
show need training wheels and rubber corners and a fence to not hurt themselves.
Dangers in the internet:
- lies about some product (adverts)
- lies about things (misinformation)
- scammers abusing gathered/leaked data
There’s no need to supervise users. There’s a need to crack down on abusive hosters. You can’t make the internet more safe otherwise.
What they do here is either symbol politics or they do this to get more power over their people.
Its still unclear to me why all these countries are attempting this legislation at the same time.
It’s being pushed in a bunch of countries by the same group of authoritarian billionaires.
But why? And why now? Why do they even care about vpns and ages l *all of a sudden *? What are they up to!?
They want to control what information people have access to and want to feed us propaganda to keep us doing things that make them richer and will put and keep them in control of economic policies.
This isn’t sudden, it’s been brewing in the background for years.
They’re up to fascism.
I will say that I don’t live in the UK, so maybe it works differently. I’m assuming internet plans include some kind of service contract you have to sign, and minors can’t legally sign contracts without parental consent. So every internet connection is the responsibility of the adult who did sign it. If kids are going to be using it then it is their responsibility to put parental controls on their network and devices.
But like the other response said, its not actually about protecting kids. Basically, if a politician ever says those words, its almost certainly an attempt to take away freedom.
They wish to know everything you do, and hide everything they do.
VPN age verification, verily?
The Lords did this in opposition to the government. Now the vote goes to the House of Commons, where the government has a huge majority. It’s a safe prediction that it’ll be voted down.
Ngl I thought it went from the House of Commons to the House of Lords
It usually does, but it doesn’t have to.
Lmao for some reason I had a good laugh out of that even if it wasn’t meant to be funny
At this stage, the UK might as well just use Putin’s MAX app. The goals are the same; why not use some synergies instead of reinventing the wheel.
