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Despite the UK's better sex education, the country (or at least its leadership) is still disturbingly socially conservative when it comes to sex.

The New Mexico AG behind this case is Raul Torrez. He's a fascist/authoritarian asshole who has been using this case to try and force mandatory online age verification on everyone …

The problem is that "what's right for children" should be better parental controls, and better enforcement of treating self-declared ages under 18 separately. Instead, the New Mexi…

The other answer is that the people creating these ads have the resources to continuously try and bypass filters/moderation.

That's how members of the UK government refer to anyone that supports privacy and encryption

And that should be highly illegal to demand that a user submits to age verification.

The EU app is still shitty and unfixable, because it requires that you send personal information to a third party. The only acceptable and privacy respecting option is self declara…

That's a false equivalence. The only thing we should be doing is tackling addictive algorithms for everyone, and providing purely optional parental controls that are disabled by de…

That's a false equivalence and you know it.

The current version of the API seems to allow for that to be a requirement already, as part of the "ageRangeSource" field: https://developer.android.com/google/play/age-signals/und…

Signal would rather tell a government to fuck off than implement any sort of client side scanning.

Google's shitty API lets developers force you to verify your age with government ID and selfies, as part of the "ageRangeSource" field: https://developer.android.com/google/play/ag…

Their shitty API lets developers force you to verify your age with government ID and selfies, as part of the "ageRangeSource" field. https://developer.android.com/google/play/age-s…

The blog post lists regions where it is not mandatory

The problem is that you may wake up and find this system enabled by default unless you submit to age verification, like the authoritarian bullshit Apple pulled in the UK.

Right before that, they explicitly demand that age verification be 100% optional. But I wish they used stronger anti age verification language rather than trying to pay lip service…

Those are false equivalences.

> He is not advocating a ban of open-weight models He is though. He wants open weight models banned that do not pass some set of tests. And what does "safety" mean here? We constan…

If a country wants to ban private open source communication, then they do not deserve to enjoy the benefits of modern technology.

> Also, doesn't this give law enforcement an easier avenue to compel access to someone's accounts? It does.

> Now, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands must determine whether the geo-blocking used by the website was state of the art and effective in practice. If so, the intended audience…

One of the core functions of Court of Justice of the European Union (CEJU) is to perform judicial review, which means they can strike down laws. So it would not be legal to pass le…

Hopefully this ruling adds to some precedent in favour of VPNs to future court battles attacking VPNs for circumventing age verification.

A mandatory client side scanning system with an opaque database filled with unverifiable entries would render many of the protections provided by ADP meaningless. Its was insane th…