[Funes-]

We're going to see more and more crackdown on internet access, in the name of making it "safe", or "safe for kids", particularly. All they want is pushing for censorship and control, though, on top of collecting and selling even more data. We'd be wise to make an effort to migrate to censorship resistant overlay networks like Hyphanet (formerly Freenet) or i2p before it's too late.

[CommanderData]

Kids are the the governments future canon fodder.

It IS a matter of national security if your nations children grow up and witness all the horrors it's government does abroad and heavens forbid grow anti government sentiment or opinions.

[lm28469]

Lots of people keep mentioning these conspiracy theories but I still don't buy it.

The "they" you're all mentioning simply doesn't exist. Who are they ? All the governments of the west somehow working together ? They can't even cooperate more than 6 months on internal matters but they globally agreed on some world wide evil plan ? And the plan is to ban kids from youtube ? Because reasons ?

Who is going to collect more data if there are less websites/users ? Who's selling "the" data ? Who's buying "the" data ? What data ? How are governments benefiting from censoring brain rot in a way that doesn't also benefit me exactly ?

All the data is already collected by US megacorps and stored on US servers the US gov can already fully access, it doesn't get any worse than that

[_imnothere]

> conspiracy theories

Except that it's real and happening, it does not magically become non-existence just because that you don't see it or refuse to understand.

[mindcrash]

> Lots of people keep mentioning these conspiracy theories but I still don't buy it.

EU is actively working on "age verification" through a digital wallet.

Once that is in place it is a small step to wall off the entire Internet unless you verify yourself through your digital ID.

Since Trump is as borderline fascist as von der Leyen there's no fucking doubt in my mind the United States will follow the EU as soon as there are signs of success or even earlier.

Proof: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic...

Especially note "The objective is to develop an EU-wide solution to age verification that reinforces the Digital Services Act (DSA) objective to ensure safe, secure, and trusted digital space and the Louvain-la-Neuve Declaration, which promotes a safer and more trustworthy online environment."

Whenever those in power talk about "security", "safety" and "trust" they talk about other things entirely which, for the larger public, have nothing to do with these topics at all.