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The Fediverse is at risk by the EU KIDS ACT! (www.heise.de)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I bet that it will be such a mess that they won't dare to enforce it.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    They would easily dare to enforce it against smaller entities who can't fight back, is the point.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    also allows them to silence criticism, and censor material that they dont like, current hot topic anti-zionism.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    ¡Exactly!

    Now, what are good options, I dunno. But I've always considered that it's important for platforms with strong presence of social resistance to have adjacent hosting in something like extrajudicial waters, or at least in countries that can safely ignore things like the DMCA.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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. :(

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