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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

EU decides what must happen, and it’s up to the individual countries to put it into their respective laws.

Wow, it's so weird that the article you linked lied, then!

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

No, it's saying that exact thing: online users of porn must be deanonymised on penalty of prison. To stop child abuse because that's related somehow?

It's just that the countries themselves must choose the particulates: who will do the deanonymisation, in what way, what will enforcement look like, etc.

That's what they mean with "the final shape of the law hasn't been determined yet".

Every EU directive works that way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union)

A directive is a legal act of the European Union[1] that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals

In this case: the de-anonymisation must happen. Up to the respective countries to do the dirty work.

When people, rightfully, get angry the local politician will say "we had to because EU". And the EU will say "well we didn't say it had to be in that way, it's your local politician that did that."

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Are you reading your own sources...?

A directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals

Considering (another quote from your own sources):

Negotiations will now begin between the Parliament, the Council of the EU, which represents national governments, and the European Commission to determine the final shape of the law

They might as well look at the UK, and go "OK, lets have the user click that they pinky promise they're 18".

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

I have: here's the relevant paragraph from the directive:

Amendment 186 Proposal for a directive Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Disseminating pornographic content online without putting in place robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prevent children from accessing pornographic content online shall be punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least 1 year.

Pinky promise is explicitely not allowed.

And you're doing the exact thing: blaming the specific implementation 🙂 It's so sad that that still tricks people. Is this your first time learning how a EU directive works?