Australia’s Online Censorship Bill Moves To Senate With Age-Gating Fears Intact The amendments were sold as polish, but the bill is starting to look more like infrastructure for universal age checks.

Australia’s Online Censorship Bill Moves To Senate With Age-Gating Fears Intact

The amendments were sold as polish, but the bill is starting to look more like infrastructure for universal age checks.

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🚨URGENT WARNING!!⚠️ The EU KIDS Act has already imposed an obligation on app stores and operating systems in addition to the social media networks, video-sharing platforms, online video games, and AI companions and chatbots when it was first announced and proposed last month. #StopKillingTheInternet

EU Kids Act: what do the planned age restrictions and safety requirements for minors online mean for providers? - Winston Taylor

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#StopKillingGames #StopOSSpies #NoAgeSignals #NoAgeVerification #StopKOSA#NoKOSA #StopKillingTheOS

Stop the OS Surveillance Mandate@stopossmandate.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨URGENT WARNING!!⚠️ The EU KIDS Act has already imposed an obligation on app stores and operating systems in addition to the social media networks, video-sharing platforms, online video games, and AI companions and chatbots when it was first announced and proposed last month. #StopKillingTheInternet

German train experience: Cycle to the station, get stuck at a crossing for 20 minutes and miss your train

#savespeech #europe #gdpr #DSA #eu The EU has decided to label a border agency as a trusted flagger, allowing them to report and get content taken down on internet platforms. I get the mechanism itself, but why them exactly?

Rachel Griffin@rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 5d ago

EU Commission saw Trump getting Meta to suppress content from political opponents and decided they would also like to get in on that 🙄 I wrote a couple of years ago about how/why the DSA would be used for things like this: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For folks in the EU, protect your data and privacy, and call your MEPs to stop the Digital Omnibus. #SaveSpeech

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)@corporateeurope.org · 5d ago

✊ The European Parliament can still stop this. The privacy organisation @noyb.eu has mapped which MEPs are undermining our digital rights. ✍️ Write to your MEP and ask them to stop the Digital Omnibus. gdpr-omnibus.eu

EU Tech Rules Pit Privacy Against Competition - Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) ->Center for European Policy Analysis | More on "Privacy versus competition in tech" at BigEarthData.ai | #Privacy #Tech

EU Tech Rules Pit Privacy Against Competition - Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

After running two half marathons, I decided to get serious and buy a sports watch. As an iPhone owner, I wanted to know if a watch from another manufacturer would work well with my phone. That simple question exposes a crucial tension in European tech policy. On the one hand, Europeans pride themselves on producing the world’s most powerful digital privacy rules, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On the other hand, they pride themselves on producing the world’s most powerful rules around sharing data. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires Apple and other “gatekeepers” to open their devices to competing products in the name of consumer choice and market competitiveness. But there’s a giant problem: the two sets of rules often fight with each other. I want a choice of watches. I also want to know what happens to my messages. Although Europe’s digital rules promise both, it remains unclear how regulators are drawing the line between the access a competitor needs and the personal information it needs to share. The balance depends on concrete decisions about which data can be accessed, where it is processed, how long it is retained, and who is accountable for its use...

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#EUKIDsact is open to feedback untill December 2026 last I heard, so hurry up if you can and tell them to drop this invasive-ass internet-wrecker of a bill. #savespeech #privacy #GDPR @tuta.com

🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞@onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 2w ago

#savespeech #notoDigitalID Fri. FYI - Non-US Megathread(CRITICAL): - Feedback for EU Kids Act are OPEN to get your voices heard and sent to European Parliament and Council for OPPOSING KIDS Act - Sign the citizen's initiative to oppose KIDS Act before Aug 27: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#...

Whilst I dont really like AI, the MSO knockoffs have made switching to Linux a breeze - even my moms T450s is rocking Fedora now. All without the hassle of having to relearn libre office...

#ScrewTheEUKidsAct Anyways, you can also mention your concerns about the EU Kids Act aswell as about Age verification in general when you make a new maildraft for "fightchatcontrol.eu" while also critizing chatcontrol. As a reminder, use the time to give your feedback against it before 3rd december

🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞@onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 2w ago

#savespeech #notoDigitalID Fri. FYI - Non-US Megathread(CRITICAL): - Feedback for EU Kids Act are OPEN to get your voices heard and sent to European Parliament and Council for OPPOSING KIDS Act - Sign the citizen's initiative to oppose KIDS Act before Aug 27: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#...

#savespeech #notodigitalID #brazil Brazil Issues Guide to Digital Safety Compliance, which requires adult websites to age-verify users located in Brazil www.xbiz.com/news/301672/...

Brazil Issues Guide to Digital Safety Compliance

Brazil’s National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) published on Wednesday a new guide outlining online providers’ child-protection responsibilities under the Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents ...

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Pressure works, remember this also when dealing with digital freedom + censorship issues such as the #eukidsact , #chatcontrol , paypro censorship and pornbans, etc. Keep up the pressure! #savespeech

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 5d ago

The reason the rich try to suppress protests and complicit media say they're all just "riots" is because they work

Hey, @marcmillermp.bsky.social. Name ONE PERSON from the general public who actually wants this nightmare of a bill.. Kids already went on CBC and straight up said that they will bypass it any way they can, and it'll be whether you like it or not. (1/2) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada vows to restrict social media for kids under 16. Teens say they'll 'always find a way' | CBC News

Canadian teens and parents — the two groups directly impacted by the Safe Social Media Act (Bill C-34) introduced Wednesday by the federal government — share their thoughts on social media and the pro...

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The App Store Accountability Act turns every phone into an ID checkpoint. This is not child safety, it's digital ID. Stop the ASAA in your state ➡️ https://www.protectingkids.online/takeaction

Here, for calling your EU reps to stop the digital omnibus from taking away your data privacy. #eu #savespeech #privacy #chatcontrol #dataprivacy #europe

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)@corporateeurope.org · 5d ago

✊ The European Parliament can still stop this. The privacy organisation @noyb.eu has mapped which MEPs are undermining our digital rights. ✍️ Write to your MEP and ask them to stop the Digital Omnibus. gdpr-omnibus.eu

#savespeech @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)@corporateeurope.org · 5d ago

✊ The European Parliament can still stop this. The privacy organisation @noyb.eu has mapped which MEPs are undermining our digital rights. ✍️ Write to your MEP and ask them to stop the Digital Omnibus. gdpr-omnibus.eu

More #OnlineSafetyAct written evidence to the Lords Communications and Digital Committee Inquiry trickling out. 33 submissions published so far. committees.parliament.uk/work/9955/th...

The Online Safety Act: implementation and impact - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament

Written evidence submission publications for The Online Safety Act: implementation and impact.

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I cannot stress enough to Linux users how unhelpful it is to see someone unhappy with win11 and going "LOL UR FAULT FOR USING IT GIT GUD" Not everyone has the time or capacity to deal with the compatibility issues and workarounds etc. You are doing the opposite of making people want to use it.

There is no amount of data collection, surveillance, or censorship that will get a child off a screen. Parents must be willing to set and enforce boundaries for their children.

I hope this won't be something like the ID/face-scanning bills in other countries or something ala nuking section 230. But like, surveillance capitalism + the kind of thumb-on-the-scale media manipulation that happened online during the election? Yeah that has to go.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com · last wk.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

I'm tired of being on the fucking backfoot about trying to stop invasive age verification bills or censorship or whatever fucking else keeps threatening the places that matter to me. I'm so sick of seeing people who don't care, or worse fucking *endorse* it We need actual campaigns and more calls

In case you missed it: #Ofcom are proposing to ban open access to content by Joy Division, Pink Floyd The Wall, Nine Inch Nails, and anything pertaining to goth subculture; also #dysphoria forums and anything discussing body "wrongness" Because children should not have access to that kind of thing.

Alec Muffett@alecmuffett.bsky.social · last wk.

God alone knows how #Ofcom and their functionaries will interpret "promotion of body stigma" as applied to open discussion of gender #dysphoria

God alone knows how #Ofcom and their functionaries will interpret "promotion of body stigma" as applied to open discussion of gender #dysphoria

Europa steuert auf ein Internet mit Alterskontrollen für alle zu. Grund dafür ist der von der EU-Kommission vorgelegte Kids Act. Entstehen soll eine Infrastruktur, mit der sich die digitale Öffentlichkeit potenziell überwachen und spalten ließe. Der Weg dorthin besteht aus sechs Schritten.

Der Kids Act oder die sechs Sargnägel des offenen Internets

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Btw since the next chatcontrol negotiation will be on November & the EU KidsAct hasn't officially launched yet in Europe I will give you some keywords that you can use just in case you want to mail/call MEP's or other reps (the main targets are mostly the EU-Commission aswell as VDL since both -

We believe one of the best ways to accomplish this, is by starting to get as many people as possible, switching over to #Linux. There are constantly new apps being made for the various distros, many of them open source. Starting the switch over to Linux isn't hard, there's plenty of help to do it.

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 2w ago

The big tech companies have been the default software for far too long. Take a few steps and find software you actually like to use. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...

Every Year, the SWR 1 Hitparade reminds me how great FM Radio can be!

Die Eurosky-Identitätsplattform ist jetzt ein Digital Public Good Anerkannt von der Digital Public Goods Alliance: Open Source, auf offenen Standards aufgebaut und im öffentlichen Interesse betrieben. #Eurosky #mu #OpenSource #DigitalPublicGood #DigitalPublicGoodsAlliance #EULE #EULEde

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · 2w ago

We're delighted to announce that the Eurosky Identity Platform has been officially verified by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a digital public good (DPG). eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

Ever have a day where you just feel like nobody gives a shit about stopping the internet from being censored/gated further? Or rather, that everyone is too busy dooming when they could be working together to push for change?

If this decision stands, we will be in the *very* weird space where it is easier for the government to restrict access to entire speech venues (all libraries, bookstores, video games, social media) than to subsets of speech on particular topics.

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 3w ago

11th Cir. holds that Florida's ban on anyone under age 14 and anyone under 16 without parental consent from creating a social media account likely does not violate the First Amendment. Judge Newsome writes a concurring op. agreeing with his maj. op. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...