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Mandatory age verification online in the EU - Amendment 186 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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EU parliament accepted a last minute amendment, mandating age verification for pornographic (whatever that is) content online, punishable with up to one year prison sentence.

This was rolled into a directive concerning CSAM. Because adults accessing porn need to be de-anonymised to avoid child exploitation?

Some press releases: (1), (2), (3)

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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

No chance we could just... you know... tell the parents to start parenting for once? Like... idk... using the fucking parental controls in the devices they give their children and checking every once in a while what are they doing online?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    No chance we could just… you know… tell the parents to start parenting for once?

    "Those" parents: "The State can not tell me how to raise my child!"

    Two weeks later when the State has not told them how to raise their children:

    "Waaah waaah! Raising kids too hard! The State should do it for me!"

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    • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    This assault by religious sex obsessed freaks against civil society only stops when we ban orginized religion.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Now wait for the expanding of what is considered adult content.

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    [+] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Carnegie UK, did this in the UK… the same Carnegie that was one of the original “robber barons” of the Industrial Revolution, until the public were so angry about the wealth gap the governments of the time were forced to introduce labour laws and stop their greed. This is sounding familiar…

    Anyway 100 years later his companies and “charities” are back to fuck with us again.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago

    Porno is not harmless. Current common US-based porno teaches young people that men abusing women is normal behavior (spanking is nearly mandatory, also rough behavior, unsolicited anal sex, even rape-like intercourse, the list is long). That is the start of a lot of problems especially for women - but mostly for society at large.

    I don't know what's the good solution to this. Regulate porno at the source (only consensual non-violent sex allowed) ? Seems tricky. Age verification isn't good because adults also can be influenced. Plain prohibition isn't democratic and never works anyway, and the right kinds of porno may be good for people.

    The past situation was bad and the coming one (age verification) won't solve anything - it's just an excuse for more police state.

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    • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Can't wait to have to show id on every website, especially ones on which I say what I think about my government (that jails people for that)

    Sneaking giant bombshell as a last minute amendment – that sure reminds me of certain authocracy's legislative practices

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