Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest misguided attempts to protect children online, internet users of all...
  • chromodynamic@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    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 .

    • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      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.