It doesn’t sound as if they want to ban them, but to introduce age-verification for using VPNs.
Which also would be bad, but not quite so ridiculously insane as your post heading states.
It’s bullshit. Children cannot buy an internet connection in the first place. Dont let the state lie to you about age-verification, it’s identity verification, they want to know who is doing what, age has nothing to do with it.
Yes, you are right, it is.
(although the “children can’t buy internet” argument that turns up every time this topics are discussed, is also bullshit).
it’s identity verification
Yep, totally. End of anonymous use of the internet is the wet dream of some (primarily conservative) politicians.
But this has not been the point of my comment.
Rather that distributing fake news (“want to ban VPNs”) doesn’t magically become the right thing to do because the cause is a righteous one.
The idea itself is terrible, independent of age. It always starts with something like this and before you know, it gets expanded. Because a lot of people are like you: ‘don’t worry. It will be alright. Doesn’t impact us’.
The same for chat control.
The more important it is to keep our stuff together and not distribute false facts, as this will just let people think “oh, just another lying clickbait post on lemmy”.
That was the actual point of my comment.
It doesn’t sound as if they want to ban them, but to introduce age-verification for using VPNs.
Which also would be bad, but not quite so ridiculously insane as your post heading states.
It’s bullshit. Children cannot buy an internet connection in the first place. Dont let the state lie to you about age-verification, it’s identity verification, they want to know who is doing what, age has nothing to do with it.
Yes, you are right, it is.
(although the “children can’t buy internet” argument that turns up every time this topics are discussed, is also bullshit).
Yep, totally. End of anonymous use of the internet is the wet dream of some (primarily conservative) politicians.
But this has not been the point of my comment.
Rather that distributing fake news (“want to ban VPNs”) doesn’t magically become the right thing to do because the cause is a righteous one.
The idea itself is terrible, independent of age. It always starts with something like this and before you know, it gets expanded. Because a lot of people are like you: ‘don’t worry. It will be alright. Doesn’t impact us’. The same for chat control.
Yes, I totally agree with you there.
The more important it is to keep our stuff together and not distribute false facts, as this will just let people think “oh, just another lying clickbait post on lemmy”.
That was the actual point of my comment.