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!
I bet that it will be such a mess that they won’t dare to enforce it.
They would easily dare to enforce it against smaller entities who can’t fight back, is the point.
also allows them to silence criticism, and censor material that they dont like, current hot topic anti-zionism.
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. :(
Idk if it’s really possible to have government supported internet that isn’t a government controlled internet.
Governance in general relies a lot on the spiral of silence, and a free internet tends to disrupt it.
People should have thought about electing decent politicians decades ago, but far too many have fallen for electing ‘the lesser evil’ instead.