- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ca
The UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t just age-gate porn; it blocks material deemed “harmful” to minors. Days after the law went into effect, reports of non-explicit content on social media getting blocked in the region started to crop up. Subreddits from r/IsraelCrimes to r/stopsmoking are now walled in the UK. Video games, Spotify, and dating apps have instituted or will institute age checks.
Given the SCOTUS age verification decision [June '25], Stabile fears that people [in the US] will go “mask off” in the fall and spring, when state legislatures start getting back together. “People are going to attempt to restrict the internet even more aggressively,” Stabile said. “I think people are going to work to restrict all sorts of content, particularly LGBTQ content, but also content that is broadly defined as any sort of threat or propaganda to minors.” Other experts Mashable spoke to agree with him.
“I’m going to jump to the end step,” [Eric Goldman, law professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law] said. “The end step is that most online users are going to be required to age authenticate most of the time they visit websites. That’s going to become the norm.” In a paper he wrote, Goldman called these statutes “segregate-and-suppress” laws.
The stated reason behind these laws is to “protect children.” But as journalist Taylor Lorenz pointed out, in the UK, age verification is already preventing children from accessing vital information, such as about menstruation and sexual assault.
“When we see crackdowns on spaces on the internet, we’re essentially stripping away that potential for self-actualization,” Goldman said. We’ve reached the dystopian stage of the internet, he added.
Who says I am happy with the enshitifaction of the interwebs.
I am happy these tools exist. I am not happy that they’re necessary. I trying to say that the problem of “how do we host and access services without government impedence” is a solved one.
I’m just telling you how naive it is. If all services and endpoints are monitored, the connections at the internet nodes will be noticed and blocked… Most of the content is in america and america is also making a change… (See e.g. archive.org) so in europe the same… Now others say vpn etc… well they are already taking action… Then people like you say you can get around it with I2p,tor etc… Just think of state trojans etc. The connections that don’t have an ok later (because no age verification etc (the services are simply put on a whitelist that the authorized ones should be significantly fewer)) are simply blocked… Your mesh network from router to router can also be disrupted in a targeted manner.
Ergo the services only work with a medium that is not already completely monitored… just as it was before… It’s naive to think that you won’t take action against something like this. Whereby meshnetworks reach their limits anyway as soon as there are longer distances in between.
Most of the content is in America for now. Buy a VPS in the Somalia and host from there.
All I’m saying is through rose tinted glasses, I think I preferred the internet when I was stumbling upon random people’s passion projects. A website devoted to some random cat? Sign my RSS right up.
Money getting involved in the internet has destroyed the UX while admittedly increasing utility. Worth it? Maybe, aside from banking, email, maps and Uma musume I don’t much engage with corporate internet anymore.
I am Naive? No doubt about it.
A vps… Why shouöd any comnection allowed and not blocked cause not on whitelist… Dude again… Naiv stuff from you
So no vps,proxy,socket,vpn,i2p,tor etc… Its all not possible in a complete monitored medium (without being whitelisted cause age verification etc… and maybe pre installed rootkits on vps etc think about that… )
Yea naiv
What about router manufacturers? Could there be changes at any time or firmware updates that directly prevent such connections to unauthorized endpoints without age verification? Legal action could be taken against routers with open firmware… and everything else could be blocked by the ISP’s… You should worry about all this shit… because it will come after the chat control etc. as well…
What is it that you want from me? Things are shit? I agree. Things will get worse? I agree. I’m naive? I agree. Appeased?
I’ll find ways to communicate with other oddballs. While the government is playing whack-a-mole with VPSs, VPNs, i2ps, openWRT, other shit will come around. If not there’s meshtastic. If nothing else does, I’ll go touch grass I guess.
Corporate internet doesn’t interest me over much, so if that’s all there is, on I’ll move.
I just wanted to say that we are already screwed as far as the future use of the Internet is concerned. I didn’t mean to say that you shouldn’t use I2p etc., but you should be aware that all of these solutions will be tackled at some point in the near future.