Comment by wmf
10 days ago
95% of Europeans are running American OSes today. Should age verification just wait 20 years for EurOS to be deployed?
10 days ago
95% of Europeans are running American OSes today. Should age verification just wait 20 years for EurOS to be deployed?
what's the rush on age verification? why does it need to happen now and not in a decade after working on digital ID and battle testing that etc?
Because it's a conservative talking point. And they're appeasing them with all the extreme right parties popping up all over Europe
The role played in the US by grassroot conservative bigots have no equivalent in the EU.
The push for authoritarianism seems to come purely from above. My intuition, from personal anecdotes, is that after 30 years of widening gap between the haves and the have nots, the haves are increasingly terrified buy their own populations.
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This issue is beyond any political ideology. This is about having a grip over ordinary citizens so they wouldn't become a threat to any government.
That seems odd considering that the extreme right is the one using social media most to influence the voters with disinformation. I would expect the extreme right to be completely opposed to age controls on social media.
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Age verification is not a conservative talking point in Europe. I live in Western Europe where conservatives simply do not exist and the government is trying to push an age verification solution too.
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Because they need to put a lid ASAP on internal discourse, so they are rushing any form of digital control.
People do not realise how dangerous the situation is. We are already in the kinetic phase of a world war with conflicts erupting everywhere, any major financial problem will trigger a chain reaction.
Just recently:
- A lot of people don't want to hear this but Trump just wiped the floor with Ursula with the new trade deal. It will collapse the EU economies even more.
- At few days earlier China humiliated the EU just by packing the official delegation in a bus with nobody to welcome them.
- And of course the EU inherited the Ukraine situation and is loosing a major war.
Once a major power find itself in this situation it get challenged from the inside. Individual countries will be tempted to elect Euro skeptic leaders and breakaway from the sinking ship by making deals with Russia, the US or China to save themselves.
The initial idea and force of the EU was "stronger together". But if a succession of strategic moves by its leadership make you weaker then the deal is off.
>It will collapse the EU economies even more.
Europe is going to have to swallow (probably choke) on the pill that the avg US worker works four hundred more hours a year than their German counterparts. Two hundred more than the average Frenchman.
If the EU is going to boost defense spending to cover a gap in the US funding of staving off the EU's bad neighbor, there is going to be pain. Either more working hours, less social programs, higher taxes, or some combination.
They'll probably reach for more draconian regulations to squeeze as much money from industry as possible, and likely kill it in the process. Then they will complain that they are beholden to foreign companies.
They could just choose not to depend on OS level verification tools
Why exactly do we need age verification, again? Other than the classic "But the children!" excuse of course.
Your question makes no sense. It’s like asking why do we need dog food if we ignore the existence of dogs.
Yes, and when that comes to pass, we should find something else it should wait another 20 years for.
Yes please. Never would be even better.