If they doing this might as well ban books also for harmful content to children:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
Well, they don’t care, because this is a good reason to start total control. Or they just want to raise a submissive generation of obedient dogs who don’t know what it means to fight back or bite or think critically. China by the way is a great example of the alpha version of the shit that can await us.
You mean sharing their real identity with online companies who will sell and/or lose it to hackers doesn’t make children sAfE oNLinE??!!?!11?!
failure to comply could result in fines of up to 10% of global revenue or courts blocking services
So most federated platforms should be fine, as they don’t have any revenue(usually) and blocking is hard because DNS is easy to bypass and there just are so many instances already.
Oh! So they can fine by revenue percentage but not against megacorps.
This might actually make people move to Lemmy nice.
Big not a lawyer caveat but if it is revenue then likely not. That would be all money collected before expenses which I could see including donations collected for server expenses.
Donations are considered revenue. However, depending on the receiving entity, they could be qualified differently.
Those measures never did.
I saw an interesting video suggesting that the real motivation is to give megacorps like Google a new business acting as “banks” for identity, i.e. the Internet would get so inconvenient that people would just save their identity with Google (or Meta, etc) and then use them to log in to other websites.
I probably explained it badly, but the video I saw is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw
People in the comments pointed out that those companies would also have the ability to delete or suspend your identity verification if you did something they didn’t like (or refused to do something they wanted). Reminds me of the SIN from Shadowrun .
This isn’t the motivation in Europe where there’s a deep skepticism about those - all foreign - companies.
There is no need for conspiracy-type thinking. “Think of the children” has always been a powerful and real motivating force, not just a cover for nefarious other stuff. You need to recognise that, even if it’s wrong-headed.
