This is not indeed the win you'd expect. More surveillance coming pushed by the settlement...
Well yes... and hopefully the fashion industry won't be enough to hide it.
Not what I signed up for years ago, but it's the political and social landscape we inherited... Surveillance is being on steroids now, so definitely need to fight it at every turn.
This is a shady move once more... They really want to extend this security apparatus. Let's hope there'll be enough MEPs to vote against this (which doesn't sound very likely).
Excellent piece, where are the netizens who should be fighting back those bills? Looks like we became very complacent and passivity reigns this time around. Didn't think it was related to the pervasive centralisation already in place... but indeed that might be a strong contributing factor.
Definitely this, we can't trust this kind of mechanism for what they open the door to.
Very sobering opinion piece. For all the talks about a China / USA race, it feels more like two flavors of the same dystopia. The race is just here to justify acting against their own population interest. The result is then the increase in illiberal fixations and nihilistic world views. This can't end well.
How do you like our particular brand of dystopia? That's what you get for using proprietary data farming game I guess.
Urgh... That was only a matter of time before they notice I guess. That'll go straight in the authoritarian playbook if they make a real move on it.
Better late than never I guess? Let's just hope this becomes very costly for that evil company.
Are we surprised? Of course depends on the browser and they're looking mostly for extensions. Clearly they try hard to map what people use, it's corporate espionage.
Unsurprisingly, they need to find new data to feed the monster...
This keeps escalating... It needs to be stopped.
The commentaries and analysis of those unjust laws continues. The motives behind the people pushing for them are getting clearer and it isn't pretty.
Good initiative to push these unjust laws to their limits. Hopefully it'll show how absurd they are.
It looks more and more likely that the current age verification fever has dark origins...
This is (IMNSHO) a very important open letter. This confirms to me that the whole set of age verification laws we're seeing popup everywhere is severely misguided. Had my suspicions before of course but it's getting clearer with this one. We should stay clear from those laws as a profession, it's important to not comply, it'd be a disservice to our users.
Those dangerous and stupid laws keep popping out unfortunately. This is clearly a slippery slope as shown from the New York bill... We need to push back or the demands will keep growing. Let's hope Free Software communities won't try to preemptively comply, this would be short sighted and self-sabotage.
The stupid idea of age verification keeps spreading with ridiculous laws...
Clearly the author is angry and he has every right to be. By closing platforms and fighting against tinkering, the big tech companies try to kill of the power user and hacker cultures. By letting this happen we all loose as a society.