cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53166284

This law affects everyone, especially people in the EU and is an attempt to implement ID verification on: Video-sharing platforms, #AI chatbots, AI companions, games, software app stores and operating systems. https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/117285674482286098

We need to: #STOPEUKIDSACT NOW!

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[–] 7 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

KIDS ACT= mass surveillance, fishing out political dissidents.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 hours ago* (2 children)

    That’s why political dissident has to happen in the real world with people we know in real life, protests are great places to meet people like that, so are all sorts of activist things like volunteer work or community organizing

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  • [–] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    I'm really tired of fighting with our governments to do any of the important helpful things they need to, and then also having to fight with them to not do shitty things that destroy good or worthwhile stuff

    It gets fuckin old man

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  • [–] 3 points 15 hours ago

    It is unclear which servers are covered. The draft adopts the definition of a social network from the Digital Markets Act. Its Recital 11 clarifies that it concerns “information society services,” which EU law defines as services generally provided for remuneration. Whether a private, non-commercial hobby server falls under this depends on the legal classification of the specific offering. The statement that every instance without exception is covered is therefore an overstatement.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    A proposal for mass surveillance of all Internet users named the "KIDS ACT" huh. What a clever name for such a thing. Did the Americans write it, or did the same people who write bills for the Americans write it?

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  • [–] 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

    This kind of thing has much less tradition in the EU than the US. First of all, European Union legislative texts are actually properly called "directives" or "regulations" (this in particular is a proposed regulation), putting "Act" in their titles is a very recent trend. And then, naming laws with these kinds of acronyms has so far not been common in the EU at all, that is clearly an imitation of US bills.

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  • [–] 7 points 22 hours ago

    The irony of linking to an article about forced identification that requires you to login and pay to read it without trackers or a giant banner that covers the article.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I bet that it will be such a mess that they won't dare to enforce it.

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  • [–] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    I hope we can elect politicians who don't hate the Internet at some point, so that we don't have to hope it will be unenforceable.

    I've been a very regular user of the Internet for more than 20 years, and 20 years ago I thought that surely in 20 years, the Internet will have become established and governments will no longer be trying to attack it, instead we will be living in a utopia of free international communication. That has turned out to be false. :(

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  • [+] -6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

    I don't like any of this but losing social media including Lemmy just isn't that big of a deal to me.

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