LillyLyle/Count Melancholia3h ago
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🚨 UK: The govt wants to ban VPNs, social media & AI chatbots in various contexts. Your silence is a yes.

Make your voice heard before May 26. Fill out the survey and let them know your views: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

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Show threadRhinos Worry Me4h ago

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Wow, the questions make it completely clear that they intend to do this regardless of the responses. Such leading questions.

Show threadClinton Anderson SwordForHire4h ago

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I'm ok if they ban all "AI" and all "social media" tbh

Show threadTed Zanzibar4h ago

@techlore "Your responses may be analysed and summarised using technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to help us to handle consultation responses efficiently and accurately."

Incredible.

Show threadhappyborg2h ago
@techlore Done. I doubt it will prove worth the effort as it assumes implementation of a harmful and ineffective measure - age verification - throughout.
Show threadJoshua Barretto2h ago
@techlore I just tried to take the survey for parents with children under the age of 21. My son is 4 months old, so I entered "0" when it asked how old my child was. The survey promptly informed me that I did not have a child under the age of 21 and so the survey was not for me. It's permanently locked me out.
Show threadhappyborg1h ago
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Show threadHTPC NZ2h ago
@techlore yeah sit around do nothing then get mad at foss projects & contributors trying to comply with the law while using overpriced products from trillion dollar companies already doing the same.
Show threadvulgalour - Free Range Queer2h ago
@techlore wow they really want you to say "Please restrict the internet, daddy, and VPNs are very bad." so hard in this.
Show threadLevka53m ago

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Go ahead put your name on a list. Just remember that the Holocaust itself started with lists.

For details, see:

https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/111007834392490556