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by xtanx 100 days ago
Organize and fight the policy. Do not take your frustration out on people and companies that just try to adjust to a law. Talk to your representatives. Create educational websites similar to fightchatcontrol.eu.
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At least in the US check out the 2014 Princeton study on citizen preferences. Our Democracy is a sham, those mechanisms don’t actually have any power to change anything.
That's why we need to organize extra hard.
But this is actually a really good policy? It just says every OS shall have a UI to turn parental controls on or off, and an API to check if they're turned on. That's a good thing. It satisfies the reasons people wanted age verification, without actually doing age verification.
Yes but the next step is forbidding open source OSes because they can be modified to lie on this API check.
The next step after forbidding the serving of alcohol to minors is forbidding the serving of alcohol to everyone.