A European Union research service publishes a paper about calls for VPN regulation, noting that they’re ‘increasingly used to bypass online age verification.’
For every door that is closed, we break open another
Are they going to ban tor too?
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Truly a “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” moment.
We live in an unprecedented time where American technological hegemony is being rejected globally, but especially in Europe. People want performant, durable, respectful software offerings, and are increasingly looking away from the Valley and the Street for answers.
So let’s jump on board with becoming part of the extended American surveillance state! Yee fucking haw.
The EU has a lot of positives but at the end of the day it’s still a bourgeoise capitalist project
You can say the whole “buy EU” movement is kinda nationalism. I said instead of “stop buying from US” it should be “stop buying from big corp” and everybody got mad
Yep EUs end goal is to become like US, USs end goal is to become like russia.
For many people, especially politicians, it was always about this. It’s a rejection of the unregulated “wild west” internet, built on US ideals of free speech.
Germany used to have a fairly successful Facebook clone. Once it was a bit successful, it was forced to split up. Minors had to get their own separate service, where they could not be contacted by adults. It wasn’t a hit. The “American technological hegemony” is the result of deliberate policy choices such as that.
Demanding age verification of websites and services is Europe sticking to its guns; European values.
So… Make vpn do the opposite if it’s very purpose. Excellent. We’re cooked.
that is 1000% the intention
What’s to stop people buying Mullvad with XMR?
The EU blocking mullvad ips unless they remove XMR as an option
Trying to solve social problems with technology always works.
Great Firewall of Europe
When are they gonna ban fake mustaches and makeup?
Will send people to Tor more than likely and that’s all I think it achieves, so bit of an own goal.
I don’t want to start a war here, but I don’t get why people argue that the EU is better than the US because X or Z. We just side with who is the “less bad” and who action’s directly affect us less or more according to our standards and reality.
This is just plain bullshit, at this point why they don’t just convert their hidden dictatorships to real dictatorships? Let’s censure everything, everything is bad, fuck that.
I don’t want to start a war here, but I don’t get why people argue that the EU is better than the US
Probably because the EU is better than the US. Just because its not perfect and has flaws, doesn’t make it as bad or worse as the US.
is better than the … “less bad”
Semantically equivalent. Nitpicking this wording is pointless
In the absence of a good option, “less bad” will have to do.
Semantically equivalent, but not the same. Especially emotionally, which humans are prone to be. Context, and matrix, matter.
Fewer bad ;)
Thank you for letting me know, I’m not an native english speaker as you can clearly see, and honestly I just type as I believe it can be understandable.
Which hidden dictatorships specifically?
The people who is behind and promotes stupid laws like this one
Well, this isn’t a law and nobody is promoting it. It’s the result of some research funded by the EU. If a law ever comes of it, it is going to go through a whole pile of democratic hurdles within the EU, and then again within each individual member state.
So again I ask. Which hidden dictatorships within the EU specifically are you referring to?
There are plenty of stupid ideas being pushed everywhere. In general, the EU has better checks and balances to weed out the awful ones. Not always obviously, but no system is perfect.
Yeah, that’s my point, maybe I redacted wrongly my comment, I genuinely want to know why people say that the EU is better than the US, and they are VERY probably right.
I just find funny this “EU vs US” everywhere.
better social safety net. also from over here it seems like there is less overt systemic racism there.
