• EighthLayer@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s the same rhetoric that the UK government are using to get a backdoor on messaging apps with E2EE.

        • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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          1 year ago

          They’ve been trying for years and never get anywhere.

          They face an issue that introducing age verification requires an ID system and whilst age verification polls well (as did earlier silly ideas like a watershed for the internet . Unfortunately, timezones exist…) ID verification polls extremely badly

          So I suspect trying and failing is their holding position where they satisfy both.

    • Khotetsu@lib.lgbt
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, anytime you see somebody making the “think of the children!” argument, look at what the possible end goal could be with that removed. Protecting kids is a favorite smokescreen because kids can’t speak up for themselves in these cases.