a4ng3l
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- Comment on US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published 6 days ago:
See you highlight the issue yourself ; forcing the websites to expose data allowing an initial set of restrictions. Once those are in place extending them beyond the initial « doing the parent’s job » scope is trivial. The infrastructure will be available to block any content.
Once those headers become mandatory to deliver content the days to http freedom are over.
Eventually the system will enforce the correctness of such headers in a way that piracy will be added. Then assisted death and lgbtq topics; I saw propositions along those lines already.
I remember one of those discussions involving European isps representative ; who is to decide on those tags and which to block? Why would 16 yo not being able to discuss a topic or reach out for help on sensitive topics? At what age are they individually mature enough for those topics ?
- Comment on Valve reveal the most popular Steam games of 2025 3 months ago:
It’s beautiful to see stardew valley in those tops after sooooo many years already.
- Comment on [Discussion] Happy New Year! What are you playing on your Deck? - Jan 2026 3 months ago:
Palmon. My desktop fried last weekend so hail the steam deck.
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 6 months ago:
Each county’s authority has its priorities… and UK isn’t Europe anymore so there’s no necessarily any spreading of this specific issue. I share you feelings about the fragmenting of the Internet as we knew it. This is a very big problem for everyone’s freedom in my opinion. But also a very tricky issue with how it conflicts with the notion of territoriality : this was honestly bound to happen sooner or later. I wish we could be another layer outside the reach of isps and countries.
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 6 months ago:
That’s unrelated to porn at least from what the ICO has disclosed. They are concerned about how Imgur handles children data’s. When a child subscribes and uploads data to their services. Which is obviously SFW. But one should take special care about those data which apparently Imgur doesn’t do. Like about everyone else though based on what I see around me… But sometimes regulatory bodies like setting examples and sending messages.
- Comment on Headteachers in England tell of worsening behaviour of pupils – and parents 2 years ago:
Not sure I’m entirely with you on that one; what’s the alternative to schooling kids so that they achieve autonomy and how do you propose to make them fit in a society where is seems important to have compatibility between everyone’s behaviour if not by pushing the towards a standard ?