One way to bring in the year of the Linux desktop
Linux might receive this too. Remember, Valve is using Linux for their Steam Deck/Machine/Flare, and they are selling well enough, that the law might apply to them at least.
Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems
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Re: Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems
#62It's actually better to do this on the device. If you can give children something that is basically whilelisted access then it reduces the need to try to filter the open web.
Yes. This is a bad law, but somehow still a better one than the UK got...
Not sure it is. It will require a lot of locked down control, and may make open source OSes effectively illegal. Even on Windows it will require only being able to install software from the MS store AND MS only allowing software that complies with this law to be installed by German users.
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#63It makes more sense to first ban violence in movies and games.
Can we please not ban either and just put the people who can't differentiate GTA from IRL in asylums?
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#64*This does not seem like a censorship measure.* It seems like it requires OSs to give parents an easy way to filter porn. I struggle with porn addiction. When I really fall back into it I act out 5-10 times a day. I can’t stop even if I want to. It distracts from work and from my real life relationships and girlfriend. Everyone on HN loves to rag on social media because it’s so toxic. What about porn? If social media…
The issue here is not having an easy way to block porn, the issue is enforcing it. And easy ways to block apps and websites already exist. One I can recommend is called Freedom.
https://freedom.to/
(I expected it to be harder to find with that generic name)
edit: I like Leechblock for Firefox
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#65This feels like a betrayal from Germany.
Re: Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems
#66Unrelated, but shows the "slow collapse" of Europe (where I live in). We all know what a big issue Climate Change (and specially warming in Europe) is. So most European politicians go on and on about environment and all that. Well, yesterday, I went to play football at night and finished at around 10PM. I was planning on taking the metro, as any normal European citizen. Much was my surprise when I compared the time a…
With all respect, the car sharing you used is likely VC subsidized while the metro runs on much lower subsidies.
That said, public city transport should likely just be free. (not so much regional or national transport as the extreme congestion from the Deutschland ticket has shown)
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#67"oh no, parents aren't using these tools we're forcing companies to implement, we gotta intervene to protect the precious children so we'll assume you're a children everywhere until we can link back your real identity somehow"
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#68Germany is becoming more and more like North Korea.
while I certainly do oppose many of the cuts of our civil liberties, I think that statement is quite an exaggeration...
Re: Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems
#69Unrelated, but shows the "slow collapse" of Europe (where I live in). We all know what a big issue Climate Change (and specially warming in Europe) is. So most European politicians go on and on about environment and all that. Well, yesterday, I went to play football at night and finished at around 10PM. I was planning on taking the metro, as any normal European citizen. Much was my surprise when I compared the time a…
Is that the metro price of a single ticket or proportional for a 10 trip card or similar?
Re: Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems
#70Unrelated, but shows the "slow collapse" of Europe (where I live in). We all know what a big issue Climate Change (and specially warming in Europe) is. So most European politicians go on and on about environment and all that. Well, yesterday, I went to play football at night and finished at around 10PM. I was planning on taking the metro, as any normal European citizen. Much was my surprise when I compared the time a…
With all respect, the car sharing you used is likely VC subsidized while the metro runs on much lower subsidies. That said, public city transport should likely just be free. (not so much regional or national transport as the extreme congestion from the Deutschland ticket has shown)
Ride sharing has not been VC subsidized for many years.