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Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs (www.pcmag.com)
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A European Union research service publishes a paper about calls for VPN regulation, noting that they're 'increasingly used to bypass online age verification.'

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[-] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

is better than the ... “less bad”

Semantically equivalent. Nitpicking this wording is pointless

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

In the absence of a good option, "less bad" will have to do.

Semantically equivalent, but not the same. Especially emotionally, which humans are prone to be. Context, and matrix, matter.

[-] liinux@pawb.social 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🤓☝️

[-] meowmeow@quokk.au 0 points 2 weeks ago

Fewer bad ;)

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