A lot of people outraged by this but ultimately this is good news - the more flagrant & public the technical incompetence of the people putting together these idiotic systems, the easier mass push back will be to foment.
EU age verification app not planning desktop support
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#32Is there anything in the proposal to stop people from VPN'ing to a free country and access their porn from there?
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#33so a smartphone is required by law? that's fucked up
No! Only required if you want to participate in society.
And what gets me is that it's not just 'you need a phone', it's 'you need a Google or Apple account'.
Re: EU age verification app not planning desktop support
#34what if i were to buy a linux phone? it's not even about desktop support, it's about supporting iOS or android and nothing else which is really bad
Re: EU age verification app not planning desktop support
#35so a smartphone is required by law? that's fucked up
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Suuure, if the USSR had been a deeply neoliberal market economy. Something tells me you don't know anything about either the EU or the USSR.
While I agree EU is nothing like USSR, calling it a market economy is kind of questionable. It’s a bit of a hybrid, which companies allowed to market and sell on their own but with intense regulatory control over product design.
From USBC to ad supported business models, the EU has fairly tight control over how products are designed and monetized, in a way that I don’t think can be described as a pure market economy.
Note that I’m NOT saying their level of centralized control and government specification of product requirements is bad. It’s a legit trade off and there are arguments that some or all of it is enlightened. But it’s certainly not a place where you just build your product and ship it and let the market decide.
Re: EU age verification app not planning desktop support
#37Is there anything in the proposal to stop people from VPN'ing to a free country and access their porn from there?
no, like there's nothing preventing you from getting porn via USENET.
This has always been a "best effort" initiative that is unlikely to stop "dedicated" users.
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#38Tangentially, I would love to be able to see the age of everyone on the internet. IRL this gives us so much context when having an interaction.
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#39what if i were to buy a linux phone? it's not even about desktop support, it's about supporting iOS or android and nothing else which is really bad
Most of what the EU does these days is (knowingly or not) freezing the current status quo regarding the tech world. It’s depressing.
Re: EU age verification app not planning desktop support
#40so a smartphone is required by law? that's fucked up
not A smartphone: an iphone OR an android verified device.
not your linux phone with waydroid or fairphone with lineageos