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> Today, someone can post a Telegram group message and make thousands of people rally to a town square. I see the dangers, and I see why governments think they

> Today, someone can post a Telegram group message and make thousands of people rally to a town square. I see the dangers, and I see why governments think they are doing this to protect the people. Don't play into their propaganda. Governments don't like it because they're protecting themselves and their power; making it harder for people to find each other and organize and rally is one of many ways governments do that. (There's a reason authoritarian governments regularly shut down cell networks.) https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy222 https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy2... > The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

rvnx 11mo ago
You don't even have to go that far, in Europe, to use a large social network (50M users), and the definition is very broad (WhatsApp is a social network, Telegram, Signal, TEMU, Aliexpress, etc), all users will have to provide their ID to that they are not a minor, otherwise the website can be blocked or fined. This is to protect minors of course. Did you think about the children ? Telegram, whether it's true or not, claims they are not a large platform (so if this is a lie, it may really pay off). https://sumsub.com/blog/age-verification-on-social-media/ https://sumsub.com/blog/age-verification-on-social-media/ "WhatsApp is now a Very Large platform in the EU, and will face tougher regulation" https://www.theverge.com/news/614445/whatsapp-channels-very-large-platform-vlop-digital-services-act-eu https://www.theverge.com/news/614445/whatsapp-channels-very-...