There needs to be a watchdog for the watchdog, because this is totally unacceptable for a official to be this out of the loop on the technology they are watching over.
If they are a professional they should have some clue as to what is going on, but instead they’re listening to their fascist pals.
It first starts with the “children” or the “bad actors/terrorists” and ends with a straight up fascist police state.
Farage will definitively not dismiss this opportunity - this and more is what he craves. Fascism will be pushed harder down the throats of the working class which will go a step further than the already fascist attempts at taking away rights of young people.
While casually performing hostile activity
The only thing that’s important for them and their ego is hallucinating problems and making up solutions which benefit nobody.
We live in an age where children and teens are getting their rights stripped because of said perceived “dangers” - real effort being done into something that will harm everybody. While realistic problems such as starvation and poverty get swept up under the rug.
We shouldn’t be living on the mercy of the bourgeois. Selling our freedom for bare essentials is what will drive us deeper into the slave life they have sincerely made for us.
We may have freedom to sell now, but what happens when we run out of that freedom?
That is true, the problem with nudity isn’t with age anymore - it’s with the perceived notion that nudity is damaging in some mysterious way.
Some countries are allowed to have nudity on tv which brings this indoctrinated viewpoint to perspective. In fact, this is viewed as normal no matter the age in such countries. In addition, sex-ed for older children and teenagers is of higher quality compared to western countries which prohibit nudity.
There already should be a distinction between what is a child and what is a teen - there is a huge difference and these laws don’t take that into consideration. The only thing these laws do is remain as an ageist weapon that create discrimination.
How about just use localised parental controls without this complex police state garbage. In addition, making it 16+ is extremely discriminatory and ageist. A blanket ban which treats teens like children is not acceptable and no individual should feel oppressed under their own law.
I think it’s a big positive
Is it really? Ask yourself, is the oppression of individuals based on age really a positive?
Do the voices, opinions and perspectives of those most impacted by this monstrous lawn not matter to you? Because all this proves is your support towards a fascist regime.
Of course, technological factors such as those you have outlined come in play as well. This law is a stepping stone for a totalitarian police state where everyone is impacted - irrespective of age.
However, the resonance induced in taking control of the corporations, by ultimately taking control of a class of individuals based on fallacious ageist remarks - is what makes this counterproductive, non-inclusive and destructive to trust.
There are individuals within that class that are using their might into defending their human rights, youth rights - and all you’re doing with supporting this law is disregarding them and treating them as sub-humans. One group of teenagers used 1984 as a highlight to the situation, and they are right. Ageist, infantilisation doesn’t solve nothing.
As stated before, this law has both issues in technological and egalitarian perspectives. And it’s up to you to decide if you are really against corporatocracy or if you’re just a fascist in disguise.
Exactly, to the governments, kids are just tools for mass oppression.
We are blinded by the fact that the teens are involved in this too, and they deserve equality as well. The internet is made to build bridges - get rid of boundaries - not set false narratives and infantilise those that are really impacted in this situation and have full awareness of the status quo.
This is a foot in the door technique that uses our deceived emotional manipulation, where our age discrimination is the secret ingredient in this fascist circus.
With the rising popularity of VPNs due to increasingly more countries becoming more authoritarian, I wouldn’t be supposed there will be some anti-vpn directives put in place.
In addition to that, increasingly more selections within vpn profiles will be just as restrictive as the fascist internet at home.
VPNs are a great way to circumvent this police state but it ultimately doesn’t stop fascists and their motives.
Exactly, all the talk about save the children, anti terrorism protection and other authoritarian bullshit is just an attempt to deceive and manipulate the masses.
Police state is what they resort to because these fascist fucks are fuelled by their narcissistic and machiavellianistic desires - the last thing they want is for someone to discover their true tyranny.
It is disappointing to see fascists are slowly succeeding by utilising their manipulative tactics.
For sure, it just makes more sense doing this than lumping everything in the documents folder. It feels like the current defaults are not enough anymore, having more distinct directories will make this more up to date.
Technology is now used as a tool to perpetually force the working class to obey the ever increasing draconian rules. AI is one thing, highlighting that all it matters to them is a profit with no gratitude towards the workers.
This is essentially legal slavery, fuelled by big corp and the governmental bootlickers.
With the past decades or so a phone has become a standard piece of equipment where it’s virtually used everywhere, anytime. It is a complete disaster that those standards are not applied to what’s deemed under the hood - all these companies are deemed to do anything they want to because nothing is standard.
Look where that got us - a duopoly where going against them is deemed “inescapable”. It is disappointing how we even let this happen in the first place, the capitalists and fascists basically own us because of it.
All that got us is a standard thing tacked together by mystery tape and glue - hardware & software. Open source software and standards have barely any say here just because the fascists in rule decided so.
it’s illegal to collect on children
The only reason this exists is to shut up the majority of people, so it seems that they actually care. They aren’t trying to save the children, they are trying to save their own asses.
Protecting the children should come in part with protection of everyone.
I agree, it’s not a trick however. It’s a deliberate and strategic method of persuasion - a type of call-to-action; or manipulation.
The case of autonomous driving should technically result in safer and more efficient road environment. That is the result of a fully automated system - a user will not be able to misuse or excessively degrade the machine. The same comparison can be applied to manual vs auto transmission where the advantages are quite clear.
Such situation is attributed to the fact that most of it is exacerbated and facts are manipulated. Statistical evidence and comparison of pets killed per 100 vehicles is also missing - because emotions is all it takes for masses to listen.
So is this what the tech bros wanted when they said locked in walled gardens where more secure?