The "age verification" playbook isn't about protecting kids. It's about bullying hardware and software vendors into building on-device digital ID infrastructure that can and will be repurposed for mass surveillance. The safeguard IS the surveillance. Don't fall for it.
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Countering hate is a collective responsibility. We have taken important steps to combat hate speech through strong legal protections and digital safeguards, including: 🔹 The European Convention on Human Rights 🔹 The Digital Services Act, requiring platforms to quickly remove illegal hate speech 🔹 Criminal laws banning incitement to hatred By choosing respect over division and facts over prejudice, we can help build a safer, more inclusive society for all. Say #NoToHate, today, and every day!
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Nikos 1 week ago
I showed you a solution at bitfest.. those who listened and prepared have nothing to worry about.
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Nikos 1 week ago
they are pressing all the right PARENT buttons!
Alas it falls on our shoulders to show that the world can have social spaces without toxic power/algos in the hands of oligarchs. How we get to the well meaning folks to get them to focus on the actual issue, I have no idea :(
They always take advantage of the well-meaning “useful idiots” to advance their agenda. Whether it was covid and selling the vaccines and destroying small businesses (protect the grandmas) Climate industrial complex (save the planet) Manufacturing weapons (persecuted Jews deserve a home) Trans ideology, youth mental health, medicalization, infertility, depopulation (trans people have rights too) Uncontrolled mass immigration from developing countries (what? are you a racist?)