- cross-posted to:
- MadeInDex@lemmy.world
- MadeInDex@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- MadeInDex@lemmy.world
- MadeInDex@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53166284
This law affects everyone, especially people in the EU and is an attempt to implement ID verification on: Video-sharing platforms, #AI chatbots, AI companions, games, software app stores and operating systems. https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/117285674482286098
We need to: #STOPEUKIDSACT NOW!
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The irony of linking to an article about forced identification that requires you to login and pay to read it without trackers or a giant banner that covers the article.
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A proposal for mass surveillance of all Internet users named the “KIDS ACT” huh. What a clever name for such a thing. Did the Americans write it, or did the same people who write bills for the Americans write it?
The US isn’t the only place with evil politicians that cowtow to big business.
This kind of thing has much less tradition in the EU than the US. First of all, European Union legislative texts are actually properly called “directives” or “regulations” (this in particular is a proposed regulation), putting “Act” in their titles is a very recent trend. And then, naming laws with these kinds of acronyms has so far not been common in the EU at all, that is clearly an imitation of US bills.
The US have their own KIDS act it’s currently in the Senate.
Yeah, I thought so. Billionaire-backed proposals to spy on everyone have so much in common around the world.
I bet that it will be such a mess that they won’t dare to enforce it.
I hope we can elect politicians who don’t hate the Internet at some point, so that we don’t have to hope it will be unenforceable.
I’ve been a very regular user of the Internet for more than 20 years, and 20 years ago I thought that surely in 20 years, the Internet will have become established and governments will no longer be trying to attack it, instead we will be living in a utopia of free international communication. That has turned out to be false. :(
They would easily dare to enforce it against smaller entities who can’t fight back, is the point.
I don’t like any of this but losing social media including Lemmy just isn’t that big of a deal to me.
