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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
The blog post lists regions where it is not mandatory
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
The problem is that you may wake up and find this system enabled by default unless you submit to age verification, like the authoritarian bullshit Apple pulled in the UK.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
Right before that, they explicitly demand that age verification be 100% optional. But I wish they used stronger anti age verification language rather than trying to pay lip service to the assholes attempting to violate privacy.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
Those are false equivalences.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
> He is not advocating a ban of open-weight models He is though. He wants open weight models banned that do not pass some set of tests. And what does "safety" mean here? We constantly see these companies treating NSFW content a
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
If a country wants to ban private open source communication, then they do not deserve to enjoy the benefits of modern technology.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
> Also, doesn't this give law enforcement an easier avenue to compel access to someone's accounts? It does.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
> Now, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands must determine whether the geo-blocking used by the website was state of the art and effective in practice. If so, the intended audience would not have included Dutch users, and no communicatio
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
One of the core functions of Court of Justice of the European Union (CEJU) is to perform judicial review, which means they can strike down laws. So it would not be legal to pass legislation attempting to make legal what they struck down.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
Hopefully this ruling adds to some precedent in favour of VPNs to future court battles attacking VPNs for circumventing age verification.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
A mandatory client side scanning system with an opaque database filled with unverifiable entries would render many of the protections provided by ADP meaningless. Its was insane that Apple was even considering such an idea in the first plac
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
Circumventing encryption with client side scanning is on par with requiring encryption backdoors, and goes against the purpose of having end to end encryption.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
The judge's comments are extremely disturbing, as she seems to want legislation passed that requires companies to violate user privacy. And client side scanning is just as bad as encryption backdoors. There's a good reason Apple w
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
The controversial part is having the system enabled by default with age verification required to turn it off, and having the system impact non-Apple/Google apps. The UK for example wants Apple and Google to forcibly enable nudity block
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
The problem is that Paxton is attempting to do the same thing to every site that doesn't forcibly violate user privacy with mandatory age verification. Its part of Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundations goals, and its incompatible w
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
So he managed to block the site globally for not forcibly violating the privacy of its users with mandatory age verification. The US court system really needs to do something about this, and overturn Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton in favou
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by EmbarrassedHelp 2mo ago
There's no such thing as "reasonable age verification measures". Its lie spread by fascists like Ken Paxton, the Heritage Foundation, and ton of other evil people.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
I think they may have meant it as a poison pill.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
> Super awesome as long as your kids never go anywhere they could access a non-locked-down device. We could lock every kid and adult in a padded cell to prevent kids from being harmed, so why don't we pass a law requiring that? Beca
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
Jonathan Haidt's book isn't taken seriously in academia. He also believes that social media turns kids transgender, and that may be part the reason that he's aggressively lobbying for bans enforced with mandatory age verifica
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Russia Breaks into Human Rights Activist's Phone with Cellebrite(citizenlab.ca)
5 points by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago|0 comments
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
If it becomes law, then other US states and countries will try to copy it as well.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
Any sort of identity/age verification here is problematic and unacceptable.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
The moment the UK does this, politicians in other Western countries are going to start thinking that its a good idea and attempting to copy the UK.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago
For those who do not know, bill C-22 is the Canadian government's attempt to force encryption backdoors and mandatory metadata retention on all online services in Canada. If you know anyone who uses WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, and othe
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Canadian Government Plans to Shut Down Debate and Pass Bill C-22 This Week(michaelgeist.ca)
9 points by EmbarrassedHelp 3mo ago|1 comments
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Unfortunately even if this blocking is only temporary, a precedent has been set. The government will likely be more willing to target open source models in the future that they deem to be too powerful. A lot of open source AI infrastructure
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Well, the meeting ended early today after a member who supports the bill basically rage quit. Everyone else was trying not to laugh. It seems possible that C-22 could be delayed in committee long enough to stop it from being passed before t
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
Bill C-22 is the Canadian government's attempt to require encryption backdoors and mandatory data retention, for all online services. The invasive mandatory age verification requires are part of bill C-34, which was just tabled yesterd
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by EmbarrassedHelp 4mo ago
The SECU Committee meeting is now live, and is set to go until 11:59 p.m. ET. The livestream of the meeting is available here: https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrows...

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