Wie jeder, der überhaupt aktiv ist, online ist, hat Großbritannien kürzlich neue Vorschriften eingereicht, die eine ID -Überprüfung erfordern, um auf Websites zuzugreifen, die Pornografie, Gewalt, Selbstmorddiskussion usw. enthalten. Dies allein hat Probleme.
Mehrere Personen (obwohl ich keine verlässlichen Nachrichtenquellen finden kann) haben berichtet, dass Inhalte in Bezug auf Gaza, LGBTQ -Rechte, politische Informationen neben staatlichen Websites usw. zensiert werden. Der größte tatsächliche Indikator dafür ist jedoch, dass Wikipedia eine Klage gegen die britische Regierung eröffnet.
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-online-safety-regime-online-children-harmful-content/
Ein weiteres Thema ist, dass dieses britische Gesetz und die Gruppe, die sich dafür einsetzte, Verbindungen zur American Heritage Foundation (verantwortlich für Projekt 2025) und Donald Trump selbst haben. Ich habe nur sehr wenig Mainstream -Berichterstattung darüber gesehen, aber ein schnelles Durchsuchen einiger öffentlicher Informationen ermöglicht es Ihnen, kollektiven Schreien, Abschluss und mehrere politische Aktivisten mit der Heritage Foundation zu verknüpfen.
Dies führt mich zu Irlands neuem Gesetz, das ähnlich vergeblich folgt. Schützen wir Kinder oder nehmen wir an einer Zensurkampagne teil? Ich habe gemischte Meinungen, aber ich sehe sicher, dass Irland dieses Gesetz vor den zusätzlichen Anforderungen des digitalen Dienstgesetzes erlassen. Dies scheint unnötig zu sein, da die DSA über eine zentralisierte App verfügt, sodass alle EU -Mitgliedstaaten ihre Bürger mit Pässen oder staatlichen IDs in einem robusten System überprüfen können, was Irland bis dahin verlangt? Ein archaisches Altersüberprüfungssystem, in dem unsere IDs, Telefonnummern oder andere persönliche Daten nicht gespeichert werden können, ohne dass die Empfangsfirma einfach außerhalb der EU eingehalten werden.
Das zugehörige britische Gesetz liegt bereits bei über 350.000 Unterschriften.
Could Ireland's new regulations on "Children's Online Safety" Become as much of a dramatic failure as the British regulation?
byu/Navy_Groundhog inireland
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“There’d be only one website left, and it’ll be called ‘Bring Back the Porn.’”
Lively discussion on r/unitedkingdom about this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/s/IvdgqFfwEY
Honestly, all porn and harmful materials online must be banned effective immediately.
Not only is it bad for kids to be exposed to this stuff, adults are damaging their brains too.
It’s a known fact, men are over consuming porn and become violent or think this is how it works in real life and that creates huge problems.
Let’s ban all porn for everyone for a better future.
The UK are going to have to ban Wikipedia under the terms of their new law. These things sound good in theory but in practice are both ineffectual at protecting vulnerable Internet users and really effectual at making the Internet a worse place for minority groups and small businesses.
Agegateing is fine we do it for loads of things like drinking. Social media should (IMO) be age gated.
The two main issues are how it’s done and the edge cases where it’s harmful.
If I’m lucky enough to look young and go to a pub the bouncer might ask to see ID I hand it to him he peaks at the DOB and hands it back there’s little by way of data retention and while he could see my embarassing middle name he’s not going to commit that and every other middle name to memory. Would I prefer to see even less information shared? Absolutely and PSC in various colours could achieve this. Let’s make it a green card with a photo and name. That denotes I’m over 18 (you could make cards with free travel a different colour to help speed up checks). If anyone has gone out in Australia lately you’ll know they scan and save your ID upon entry (I’m told this is so you can be put on a barred list for an area, if you cause trouble in one venue you’re barred from all) this is far from ideal as what’s the datat retention and privacy policy of the bar that’s holding my data can I get it deleted etc.?
If there is any linkage between site used and person that is unacceptable because it will be just too tempting a target for the blackmail material imagine a school teacher down the road who’s into midget porn having that information out in public or being used against him?
The edge cases (not really edge cases) the child who knows they’re gay, knows their parents won’t be supportive and is looking for support many of the services that provide that support may find themselves behind a barrier as there will naturally be talk of a sexual nature when it comes to sexuality.
How is a website or book about the facts of life considered? I will have photos or diagrams of sexual organs and descriptions of sexual acts, how will this be handled when classifying stuff (I know it when I see it is a famous quote from a SCOTUS judge but not exactly easy to implement).
The UK legislation is easily circumvented by use of a VPN (where they likely will connect to Ireland or possibly NL for fastest speeds) this will negatively impact those of us who already use a VPN for privacy reasons nothing to do with age restricted sites.
It’s going to have to be done by a third party with no retention and done in a transparent way that can be audited.
I have nothing against having age requirements but as it stands I’m not convinced that there are safe ways to implement effective checks.
It’s the ridiculous idea that security online means having to send your photos to some website or your passport / driving licence. In fact having people generally send anything identifying even a credit card if they really don’t have to is a bad idea.
It’s quite possible. It looks like some of the regulation is quite draconian, and while we do need some, I am just not sure about the idea of some of the verification methods that are being proposed, which include scanning and storing of ID documents by websites unknown. It looks like you’d end up creating a honeypot for hackers to go after for identity theft.
Also, if Ireland ends up being the innovator on extreme digital regulation, even within the framework of EU law and the DMA etc, we could see a flight of social media companies to EU member states with lighter regulation. Reddit for example has made it very clear that it’s not regulated in Ireland, but is based in the Netherlands, specifically to avoid the Irish interpretation regulations and Coimisiún na Meán.
It’s also worth noting that while a lot of this content is damaging and needs some kind of regulation, Ireland, the UK and the US are anglophone countries with historically rather puritanical and highly conservative attitudes to this topic and to censorship. Irish officialdom’s interpretation of this may well end up being way out of line with many EU members, yet it would be our agencies who are the prime regulatory bodies for everything.
> dramatic failure
As far as I can tell the regulation did precisely what it was outlined to do, you could subjectively argue that its a failure (and people have certainly been dramatic about it) but this legislation is pretty much entirely in line with what Cameron proposed with the „Big Society“ thing back in 2010? and what Blair pitched to the UK electorate back in 2002. This stuff has been in the pipeline here, the UK, the EU, and beyond for almost two decades at this point.
We’ve had four successive governments promise something along these lines, and as far as I can tell SF and any other opposition here has been basically on the same page as the government the whole time. The EU regulation that is coming down the line will probably be as successful in terms of achieving its goal, which is to start absolutely tying online activity to specific persons.
Control.
Here is a novel idea. Parent your fucking kids don’t rely on the state to keep the internet boogie man away take some personal responsibility and install a net nanny on your kids devices. Not a perfect solution but a damn sight better than banning porn.
I worry when completely non technical people let these projects be driven by big tech and their lobbyist. The EU age verification app in the works will also stop you using an OS like Graphene. So enjoy your privacy while you have it if we are continuing on this path.
Any more control of Internet is detrimental. It needs to be a place of freedom, not some nanny state.