DarkAlex
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@ProtonMail Online threats to children become real when those who buy their devices do not provide settings for a safe environment. When you put a device in the hands of a child, it is your responsibility to filter everything they can see and access with that device.
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Online threats to children are real.
But the global push toward age verification is going too far, and we’re at risk of getting this wrong in a way that’s hard to undo.
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Proton@ProtonPrivacy
Age verification sounds reasonable until you realize it means every adult hands over their ID just to go online. We wrote about why this is a terrible idea and what should happen instead. proton.me/blog/keep-age-…
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@A_K_Mandhan If we look at history, when Germany built a large army, we saw the consequences and France felt them to the fullest.
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🚨🚨Germany STRONG move
🇩🇪 Germany plans to build Europe’s strongest military force by 2039.
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@NaomiSeibt Because they started to apply the same rules that were applied by those who used a similar symbol a long time ago. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," Those who lived behind the Iron Curtain also forgot. Two regimes with the same mentality.
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In Germany, you can get arrested for this emoji 🙋🏻♂️
Can you imagine why?
Digital EU 🇪🇺@DigitalEU
💊 Emojis used as coded language to promote illegal activities online? Some platforms are now detecting emojis used as code for drug sales. This is one of the key findings of the first EU-wide report on systemic online risks. Dive in → link.europa.eu/CQhKGc #DSAForReal
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@TutaPrivacy Your data is safe.
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International Cyber Digest@IntCyberDigest
🚨🇫🇷 France's ANTS portal, the government system issuing IDs, passports, and driver's licenses, has been breached. Up to 19 million French citizens may be affected. ANTS has confirmed the breach. Exposed fields include full name, email, address, date and place of birth, phone number, and identity verification data. Confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior.
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🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. 🚨
Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.🇦🇺🇬🇷 🇧🇷
What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.
Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.
We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!
👉 More: tuta.com/blog/age-verif…
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@AyakaMods Your data is safe.😂🤣😅
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International Cyber Digest@IntCyberDigest
🚨🇫🇷 France's ANTS portal, the government system issuing IDs, passports, and driver's licenses, has been breached. Up to 19 million French citizens may be affected. ANTS has confirmed the breach. Exposed fields include full name, email, address, date and place of birth, phone number, and identity verification data. Confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior.
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This is really bad move!
It is unnecessary to have verify your government ID for gaming. Because this isn’t about protecting the children.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
PlayStation has started emailing adult accounts in the UK and Ireland asking them to verify their age. You scan a QR code with your phone and confirm your age using your mobile number, a government ID, or a quick face scan with a company called Yoti. It’s optional for now, but from June 2026 you’ll need to do it to use voice chat, text messaging, parties and other communication features. You can still play games and buy stuff normally if you skip it. This change is to follow the UK’s Online Safety Act and help “protect” younger players online.
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@markeviciute France’s ANTS ID System website hit by cyberattack, possible data breach securityaffairs.com/191069/data-br…
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Disappointed in everyone on age verification thread:
🇦🇺🇬🇧 Australian & British systems don’t work, kids are bypassing laws with VPN’s, now politicians are likely to try restricting VPN use. Australians can’t admit the system doesn’t work and ask the rest of the world to follow them.
🇪🇺 European pilot project should only be treated as a pilot project for individual EU Member States & to export abroad - open source, but with many technical flaws. Future EUDI wallet approach is more nuanced from data minimisation point of view, but aligning between 27 different systems is a challenge in itself.
🇺🇸 The American HR8250 looks half-baked, too intrusive, vague, and goes against everything the US Administration is stating about overregulation in other jurisdictions. Well, at least Americans have their constitution which actually talks about free speech and against excessive govt intrusion, which may balance the final outcome.
❌ Everyone talks about the technical implementation details, but nobody speaks about the effect on teenagers who will be prevented from exercising their human right of self-expression online - migration to fringe platforms, etc.
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@Pirat_Nation France’s ANTS ID System website hit by cyberattack, possible data breach securityaffairs.com/191069/data-br…
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PlayStation has started emailing adult accounts in the UK and Ireland asking them to verify their age.
You scan a QR code with your phone and confirm your age using your mobile number, a government ID, or a quick face scan with a company called Yoti.
It’s optional for now, but from June 2026 you’ll need to do it to use voice chat, text messaging, parties and other communication features.
You can still play games and buy stuff normally if you skip it.
This change is to follow the UK’s Online Safety Act and help “protect” younger players online.
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@DangerousThinkg @NassauExec @LarrySharpe Socialism has always divided society into two categories. Poor and rich, the middle class does not exist. The rich have always been the people who were liked and controlled by the political system for its benefit.
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Zohran Mamdani is teaching NYC a lesson
Kathy Hochul has taught New York State a lesson
Lesson learned, time to elect a whole new state government
Who wants to replace Kathy Hochul?
Will it be @NassauExec (Bruce Blakeman) or @LarrySharpe ?
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@CieloBonit A man was elected by 133 others and that makes him lord over all Catholics? I see him as a representative and administrator of the Catholic church.
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I can criticize the pope every day and twice on Sunday because he is just a man. Ya feel me?
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@markeviciute Whoever buys a phone or a PC for a child bears all the responsibility. We have started to outsource the responsibility of being a parent. The goal is not to protect children but rather to supervise people who have the ability to think critically.
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@FranceFOREV If you are unable to protect your child from the dark side of the internet, maybe you are not ready to be a parent, or maybe neither you nor your child should have access to the internet.
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🚨ALERTE INFO : Ursula Von der Leyen annonce une application européenne pour la vérification de l'âge pour pouvoir aller sur les réseaux sociaux.
🔴Êtes-vous POUR ou CONTRE ce pass numérique ?
🅰️ POUR
🅱️ CONTRE
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@AmPatriot_Ron @DoodleSnark @libsoftiktok I've never understood why some people think their lifestyle is better and should be imposed on others.
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@DoodleSnark @libsoftiktok I'd prefer people just live "modestly" and just own 1 mansion.
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BREAKING: Mamdani announces new tax on all property worth over $5 million if the owner doesn’t live in NYC full time
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@itsKalta @Pirat_Nation The EU is suffering a hacking crisis. Here’s what we know. – POLITICO politico.eu/article/eu-cyb…
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Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU’s new age verification app is ready.
>Users can soon download it. They set it up once with a passport or national ID.
>The app proves age to websites with a simple yes or no answer only. No name, exact age, or browsing data is shared.
>Von der Leyen says it is completely “anonymous”and users cannot be tracked. (Hahhahah)
>The code is open source.
>It is based on the EU COVID certificate system.
Seven countries will add it to their digital wallets soon: France, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Spain, Cyprus, and Ireland.
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@TruthHurtsTKV He is just the one who manages the church and nothing more. I knew that in front of God we are all equal. What should I understand that if you have an important position you suddenly become more Christian than everyone else?!
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I knew this would trigger a Catholic or two lol
TruthHurts@TruthHurtsTKV
The pope is just a man, he has no special connection to God. He has the same connection to God that all of us have. Why is he put on a pedestal? This is gonna trigger some Catholics lol
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@Eelze60 @DigitalEU They want to create sheep, not critical thinkers.
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@DigitalEU In the offline world it's a parental responsibility, why should the EU take the parent's role in the online world?
To protect the children? No, China 2.0 total control!
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📵The European Age Verification App is ready and soon available for citizens to use.
It is our duty to protect our children in the online world, just as we do in the offline world. Because children's rights in the EU come before commercial interest.
🔗link.europa.eu/HmnrJc
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@vonderleyen As a parent, if you are not prepared to control your child's access to the internet, maybe your child and you should not have access to the internet. Don't give a knife to someone who doesn't know how to use it. Don't give a car to someone who doesn't know how to drive.
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It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms.
The European Age Verification App is ready ↓ twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Another billion dollar business is leaving California
“Home building giant KB Home is the latest billion-dollar corporation to exit California. KB Home announcing plans to move its global headquarters from Los Angeles to Tempe, Arizona”
“The move is aimed at lowering operational costs with their CEO, highlighting the Phoenix Metro's business-friendly climate and lower cost of living. As pivotal factors, they join other corporations like public Storage, Realtor. com, and Yamaha, who are all left seeking relief from California's high taxes and regulatory hurdles”
According to a decade long study from UC, Berkeley, people who moved out of California saved an average of $671 every single month on housing, and were nearly 50% more likely to own a home within a few years
Roughly 20 billion dollar companies have fled California under Gavin Newsom
800+ companies have moved their headquarters out of California as well
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@DrClownPhD Nothing in life is free. When you get something for free, sooner or later you will have to give back in some form or another that thing you got for free.
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They are discussing a $500k exit tax in Canada! So if you leave, you have to pay them!
What kind of fvcked up society does that!?
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