Coming to a website near you this summer: the European Commission is close to a ‘solution’ that could force people to use their government-issued ID to get online. EDRi and EFF’s concerns about threats to everyone’s privacy and data protection, a chilling effect on access to information, and digital exclusion – harming the already most marginalised in society - remain unsolved.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
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    2 days ago

    we can all at least agree on what categories we may want to restrict

    nope, we can’t. lgbtq+ friendly spaces? copyrighted content? dissenting political views? some countries criminalise that, how should we tag it?

    we could add a HTML tag in the header of all of our websites

    broski, we had to relax the standard for what is allowed in html because nobody does it correctly. good luck enforcing this.

    The only thing that would need to happen on the user side is for them to instruct their browser which of these tags should not allowed to be loaded.

    who are “they”? are you suggesting direct government access to the browser? or, if it’s on the user, why would they do it?

    Since these restrictions only ever apply to children

    says who? porn is straight up illegal in some countries.

    We can give them simple, safe and secure tools to allow them to control their children’s access to their devices

    we already have those and parents are not using them.

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      1 day ago

      You’re entirely correct, I discussed this with someone else after writing my comment and they raised the exact same points. Banning and blocking won’t solve the problems, only education will.

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        1 day ago

        i don’t know if that actually helps either…

        also, reading over my reply it came across as a bit aggressive, so sorry about that. not my intention