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EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"

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Post by pibaker »

jraby3 wrote: post #5
chii wrote: post #2

How come tax loopholes aren't as scrutinized? Mandatory age verification online is a blight imho. It should be outlawed.

Why? Isn't your age verified when you renew your drivers license? Purchase something on Amazon? When I was a kid, child programming and commercials were heavily scrutinized. Now any kid can access porn, violence, and scams on the internet. That's a blight. Not age verification.

And yet juvenile crime rate is down. Bullying is down. Teenage pregnancy is way down. Even underage smoking and drinking is down.

Maybe porn and violence is making today's teenager behave better than those 30 years ago after all!

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Post by idiotsecant »

leonidasrup wrote: post #178
nirui wrote: post #109

In case people no longer remember, when China started to require websites to register for a license before be allowed to operate, it was for "protecting the children" too. This simple policy then goes on to silence most individual publisher(/self-media) and consolidated the industry into the hands of the few, with no opportunity left for smaller entrepreneurs. This is arguably much worse than allowing children to wat…

You always hear the argument "protecting the children", because anyone oposing the regulation/laws can be labeled at best "exposing the children to danger" or at worst "pedofile". So as a consequence at best the oponents of such regulation/laws should not be listened to, or at worst they should be put into prison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

All government drifts toward autocracy over time, it takes constant pressure to keep it on track. It makes you tired after a while.

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Post by wolvoleo »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #71
eowln wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Practically all the ills we suffer currently are depressing manifestations of an aging society. That, and the lack of real issues to solve.

If only we were all privileged enough to believe that the problems in the world today weren't real.

There are real problems and they are huge but the solutions to them are very unpopular. So that's why political parties resort to this kind of distraction politics. Blaming immigrants, LGBT people etc. Or simply causing other problems by bombing random countries for no reason.

Because nobody wants to limit the big corporations polluting the world and exploiting the population, tackle climate change with more than some hollow measures. Because people will be annoyed when it affects them and that means political suicide.

So they manufacture other problems, ones they can control and point the blame to groups that have little voting power.

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Post by unethical_ban »

abc123abc123 wrote: post #263
port11 wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oops, someone forgot languages evolve! Otherwise you must use Turkye, one of the Middle English spellings. The United Nations agreed to their request, it’s a minor thing to let people spell it the way that was requested. You don’t have to, but others can. Languages evolve.

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I have never heard someone call Belarus White Russia, notably any of the Belarusians or Russians I know. I have no idea why someone would do that. Of all the hills to die on...

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Post by rdiddly »

nirui wrote: post #109

In case people no longer remember, when China started to require websites to register for a license before be allowed to operate, it was for "protecting the children" too. This simple policy then goes on to silence most individual publisher(/self-media) and consolidated the industry into the hands of the few, with no opportunity left for smaller entrepreneurs. This is arguably much worse than allowing children to wat…

"...into the hands of the few..."

And there you have it, the actual reason for this.

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

slaw wrote: post #215
retired wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grab a SIM-card from Bulgaria with roaming enabled. Internet is routed through the Bulgarian ISP even when you are in Turkiye. Full internet access, no VPN required.

You have to tolerate 100ms ping.

It’s like living in Australia baby. And yet believe it or not, people do!

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Post by [deleted] »

LaurensBER wrote: post #12
SilverElfin wrote: post #4

Ugh. Here we go again. Europe’s politicians just cannot stop with wanting to control everyone and everything. It’s as if bureaucracy is the actual goal. Privacy and anonymity should be protected by law. Not violated by law.

I listen to a bunch of (mostly left) podcasts where they sometimes invite members of the European parlement and while I can agree with some of their opinions its downright scary how they think about regulations. For everything that's wrong in society the answer seems to be more and more regulations. The negative effects (such as the lack of European AI companies) are then waved away (it's because Europe spends their…

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Post by Nasrudith »

sensanaty wrote: post #214
otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're implying alcohol and cigarettes should be sold to children? (Not to mention all the other consent age laws.) That said, VPN is a national security issue, children are only a pretext.

What does national security even mean anymore? People are using this term for basically everything these days, as if saying "national security" is somehow a justification on its own. What "national security" implications are there with VPNs?

"National security" has long been their favorite cheat code for 'do what I say, you can't question it, damn it!'. The boy who cried wolf has nothing on the old man who cried national security.
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