Coming to a website near you this summer: the European Commission is close to a ‘solution’ that could force people to use their government-issued ID to get online. EDRi and EFF’s concerns about threats to everyone’s privacy and data protection, a chilling effect on access to information, and digital exclusion – harming the already most marginalised in society - remain unsolved.
nope, we can’t. lgbtq+ friendly spaces? copyrighted content? dissenting political views? some countries criminalise that, how should we tag it?
broski, we had to relax the standard for what is allowed in html because nobody does it correctly. good luck enforcing this.
who are “they”? are you suggesting direct government access to the browser? or, if it’s on the user, why would they do it?
says who? porn is straight up illegal in some countries.
we already have those and parents are not using them.
You’re entirely correct, I discussed this with someone else after writing my comment and they raised the exact same points. Banning and blocking won’t solve the problems, only education will.
i don’t know if that actually helps either…
also, reading over my reply it came across as a bit aggressive, so sorry about that. not my intention
To be fair, it’s a pretty rage-inducing proposal.