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Re: Fight Chat Control

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Post by ngruhn »

steve_taylor wrote: post #259
throwaway89201 wrote: post #126

Please also fight mandatory age verification with prison sentences. The European Parliament has already voted in favor of a law that mandates age verification for pornography with a one year prison sentence. It was included as a last minute amendment into this bill [1]. See "Amendment 186". It has been completely missed by news organizations and even interest groups. The full accepted article reads: "Disseminating po…

I personally support age verification for porn. However, age verification for almost anything else, e.g. Reddit, is a terrible idea.

Idk age restricting Instagram, TikTok etc. might be good for teenagers mental health.

Re: Fight Chat Control

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Post by wizardforhire »

I just had this great idea reading this proposed law and the comments and concerns there of… here me out

Lets just put everybody in the world in prison except for the people with net worths over some unattainable threshold… perhaps a hundred thousand dollars. Then we’ll just make everyone work for and take all of it for ourselves. That way we cam destroy their cultures and the genetic lineages and we can just kill all the people we dont like dont agree with especially if theyre skin color is one we dont agree with. The world will be a better place because the clearly superior people will be on top. We can breed the rest of humans and just eat them. We’ll call them eloi and we’ll be the morlocks.

Re: Fight Chat Control

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Post by moodywoody »

steve_taylor wrote: post #259
throwaway89201 wrote: post #126

Please also fight mandatory age verification with prison sentences. The European Parliament has already voted in favor of a law that mandates age verification for pornography with a one year prison sentence. It was included as a last minute amendment into this bill [1]. See "Amendment 186". It has been completely missed by news organizations and even interest groups. The full accepted article reads: "Disseminating po…

I personally support age verification for porn. However, age verification for almost anything else, e.g. Reddit, is a terrible idea.

There's porn on reddit though

Re: Fight Chat Control

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Post by throwaway4496 »

backscratches wrote: post #255
throwaway4496 wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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After something you don't like gets banned, how will you feel when some type of expression you DO like gets banned? Rock and roll music is next, then any words criticizing the state. As long as you agree with the flavor of fascism its okay, right?

Where does it say porn is banned?

By your logic, any laws that restricts or controls the supply, sale, or advertisement of any kind of material or content to children is against freedom of speech.

Re: Fight Chat Control

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Post by throwaway4496 »

stephen_g wrote: post #247
throwaway4496 wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Until more and more things are deemed as requiring age verification and full ID to access. Always starts with the things that enough people are happy to ban to get people like you onboard, then encroaches until there is full mass surveillance. We're already seeing the massive over-blocking and encroachment starting, just weeks into the age blocking in UK's Online Safety law coming into effect.

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Re: Fight Chat Control

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Post by thallium205 »

SilverElfin wrote: post #191
Centigonal wrote: post #25

In the US, we have government programs like PRISM and unchecked oligopolies that surveil us and use that information to identify dissent, sell us ads, and alter our behavior. In the EU, there are these initiatives to surveil us in the name of safety. Is there any regime out there who's not trying to mass-surveil their citizens for one reason or another?

In the US, violations of civil rights that are performed by officials (like legislators) can be prosecuted under something called color of law. I think it is rarely done, if ever, but the justice department could do it. Maybe Americans need to start pushing their own representatives to call for such a case in situations where individual rights are violated. Is there something like this in the EU, so that officials fe…

The punishment can include the death penalty too.

Re: Fight Chat Control

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Post by tomhow »

throwaway4496 wrote: post #268
stephen_g wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until more and more things are deemed as requiring age verification and full ID to access. Always starts with the things that enough people are happy to ban to get people like you onboard, then encroaches until there is full mass surveillance. We're already seeing the massive over-blocking and encroachment starting, just weeks into the age blocking in UK's Online Safety law coming into effect.

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