@TomasRoud I think it's time for the people to hoist the black flag. The symbol of real freedom.
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FireNeslo
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EU chce INTERNET NA ZÁKLADĚ PASU – a plánuje blokovat VPN, aby to prosadila.
„Nový systém ověřování věku nelze obejít pomocí VPN.“
Jejich plánem je totalitní sledování!
Blíží se roku 1984!
Global Dissident@GlobalDiss
🚨🇪🇺 EU wants INTERNET BY PASSPORT - and plans to block VPNs to enforce it. “The new age verification system cannot be bypassed via VPN.” Their plan is totalitarian surveillance! 1984 is coming!
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@MesoAnglic The argument is also gradient as its easier to argue that children under five should not be on social media but it's being weighed as if this is equally true for the full range. As a person with a strong need for autonomy I'm m glad I'm not 16 anymore.
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There's effectively a mass infantilisation going on especially with regards to the Internet and being a user of it. This is the thing driving a lot of the pointless and unnecessary age restrictions and bans "for the safety of Are Children"
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@ApexSeeker_ No, but if done properly with a sufficiently educated population you should get a more stable approximation of rational. The problem with being rational is that you need to agree on what problem needs solving.
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🇯🇵 I am Japanese.
Question for people all over the world.
If humans are naturally biased,
can democracy ever be truly rational?
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@secretsofprivac Personally I have just started calling it cyberstalking.
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@AzraelSch @FreeTalkLive There are multiple parts to this. You can get most of that protection from trademark (distinct from but often mixed in with copyright). If you want to have an idea of what a world like that looks like look like. The fashion world is trademark without copyright.
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@FreeTalkLive Copyright law is what prevents big companies from just taking everything from smaller creators and use it for themselves. Without copyright, many idea would not be spread because people are too scared of having their ideas stolen to voice them. And AI literally proves that.
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Ideas are the one thing in the universe that become more valuable when they spread.
Intellectual property asks us to pretend the opposite. It claims that if I arrange information in a particular pattern, I acquire a government-enforced monopoly over how other people may use, remix, learn from, or build upon it.
Abolish it.
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@anglofuturist We need to keep it that way police is a limited resource. Privacy scales much better to prevent crime.
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Our laws surrounding speech are needlessly draconian, so it's actually entirely reasonable to not want to attach your identity to an account. The right to anonymity online is a fundamental digital right, and one that people used to stand up for.
Tony Harwood@sciantificnew
If banning social media for U16s means linking a profile to an ID to verify age then I think that's all the more reason to do it. If you are worried about legal repercussions of what you are saying on SM then that's a pretty good hint that you probably shouldn't be saying it.
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@MichaelThiessen Manipulate in what way? There are markdown parsers that could convert the info it encodes into a different format for further transformation. But the question is if markdown has a syntax for the concept you want to encode, you could add your own custom extensions as well.
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I’m so sick of Markdown right now.
It’s amazing for humans and LLMs, but impossible to process or manipulate otherwise.
Is there anything that renders like Markdown (for humans) but has a strict structure (like XML/YAML/etc) so it’s easy to manipulate?
Ideally, a superset of Markdown, so it “just works” and renders like normal Markdown. But with added structure that makes it easy to parse and verify and manipulate.
I’m building my own thing currently but I’d rather not.
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@ApexSeeker_ If there was a good reason that reason should have been used instead. Lying makes it impossible to sort good and bad reasons.
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🇯🇵 I am Japanese.
Question for people all over the world.
If a government lies
for a good reason,
is it still wrong?
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@N30marisa The brush still gives much more control of your vision in a competent artist's hands. Not all images can be described in words.
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@ZubyMusic Of course there is always the possibility of ignorance. I would really hope people could not be this ignorant. But I can't completely discount the possibly.
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@ZubyMusic My conspiracy is that European leaders are preparing for a war with either Russia or China and need to be sure they know where to collect their soldiers in a few years.
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@0TulsiGabbard2 Why would you think cyberstalking everyone in a way that is very unlikely to work is justified? It baffles my mind.
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‼️ The United Kingdom said it will ban social media for anyone younger than 16.
This is a wide-ranging rule that would block most major apps for children in that age group.
Do you think it’s justified?
🅰️ Yes 👏
🅱️ No
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@RestoreStH I wish we would all agree cyberstalking is creepy. Even when the government does it.
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This is deeply concerning.
Age verification is not the solution, and our government should not be stepping in to parent young people in place of those who brought them into the world.
Government intervention should always be minimal.
#VoteRestore 🏴🇬🇧
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
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What’s funny about the idea of a social media ban is that no government who was benefitting politically from young teens on social media would do it.
The only reason they want to now is that young teenagers are now choosing to be conservative.
They want to control all information fed to them, since where they have the most power is the school system which is an indoctrination machine.
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@FringeViews Why would they? Have they done something that threatens the ruling party's political control? But yes it's not a question of if, that will happen. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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If you are someone who believes Internet ID verification will lead to the arrest of 'dissidents' how do you explain the network of Podcast bros, none of whom have endured any sort of state interference?
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@YardleyShooting The level of tech illiteracy is discouraging. But I know from studies that have been done that you really only need to make about 25% of someone's feed a contrary opinion to be able to change minds. So yesterday i decided my spectating run over.
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Digital ID & Central Bank Digital currency seem sadly inevitable because few seem to see the extent of the danger. We're past 1984. We've allowed far too much online manipulation already. Few understand the dangers of this space, or, indeed the manipulation already happening.
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@kevinhollinrake I'm sure I'm not the only one to tell you this. But this just is technically unfeasable. Even the best attempt the app created by the EU can only really prove *someone* is over a certain age. I have a lot more I could say but not more characters to say it.
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Back door to Digital ID?
Some are asking if the under-16s social media ban is a backdoor to Digital ID?
As far as Kemi and the Conservatives are concerned, absolutely not.
We are entirely opposed to digital ID and want to see the ban implemented in a way that doesn’t force mandatory digital ID onto anyone. Proving your age for social media should be no more intrusive than it is for buying alcohol.
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@dereksmith15212 @AdamSykesWirral Peculiar that males having been using social media happily since they where children think is gone for new generations to do the same. And more importantly that surveillance is more harmful than social media.
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I implemented my own social media ban. I told my kids they aren't having TikTok, as it is answerable to the Chinese state. Then, they didn't have TikTok. No Digital ID was required. I am their parent, not their friend. I don't need the government to parent my children.
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@LibertarianGrif I'm in Norway we will get the same stupid nonsense. Can we unite under the banner of a jolly Roger. Would make for a powerful visual.
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Let’s get a fuck Digital ID follow train going! We can’t let the tyrants in the UK, Canada, Australia, and US government force us into mass surveillance and censorship like China and North Korea!
Reject Digital ID and Remove Tyrants!
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@OzSalmond @silkiecarlo @Kathleen_Tyson_ I don't know what to tell you dude much of my childhood I was doing exactly that and it was perfectly fine. And luckily if the was a problem I could all my parents for help.
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@silkiecarlo @Kathleen_Tyson_ Anyone who wants children exposed to an uncontrolled social environment accessible totally anonymously by adults is not on children's side, they are promoting ideology reardless of children's interests
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Imagine being so bad at government that you do a national “child safety” push that prompts the opposition of…. Save the Children 🥴
(And they’re right)
Save the Children UK@savechildrenuk
Following the announcement that under-16s will be banned from social media in the UK, we spoke to our digital safety expert, Jeffrey DeMarco to get his thoughts on this and what children's rights look like in the digital age. He explains that protecting children online is not simply about restricting access to technology or social media, but about building digital resilience, strengthening support networks and ensuring that technology companies design products with children's wellbeing in mind. To find out more about how can we ensure children are able to benefit from the opportunities online platforms create while remaining safe, informed and empowered, watch the full interview on YouTube here: bit.ly/49Y9fe4
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