stux⚡️@EUCommission if you got an issue with my VPN, you got an issue with me!
Will you please stop attacking privacy and calling it safety? It’s called mass surveillance
@EUCommission Here is my age verification:
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asudox
Dragon@stux @EUCommission imagine getting parents to you know parent propely rather than just banning everything... What a concept.
@Dragon @EUCommission but for real..
Terrible solution
MusiqueNow 
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Y'know, I wonder who the EU🇪🇺is for, truly!
It doesn't fight against the far right, it makes deals with African countries to send asylum seekers away from the EU to no-man's land in a desert somewhere (breaks internatl law! Asy Skrs are allowed to go wherever they want) or ppl languish in Callais with no reprimand of France for violating human rights, you allow extreme farright MEPs , Frau Ursula is rather chummy with 🤮Donald Trump, you're more concerned with big business and your U.S. tech fascist billionaires than real humans, and you're helping to ruin the internet for many people who need privacy (LGBTQIAplus ppl from places like Hungary etc, survivors of dom violence, etc), and I could go on
The E.U. with it's Frau Ursula are more concerned with needs of the 1% (who are bigoted, selfish), the tech oligarchy (outright fascist billionaires) , the needs of mega corporations and with keeping Europe 'white', cis, wealthy/middle-class and gentile.
The only reason for the UK to join is to fight the way the @EUCommission runs the EU!
Larry@Dragon @stux @EUCommission
Or have companies ask a skill testing question on first signing. Modular math, perhaps?
Or have companies ask a skill testing question on first signing. Modular math, perhaps?
fr0g@frog_reborn @Dragon @stux @EUCommission
I'd think mathematical questions would be the least abelist route.
I'd think mathematical questions would be the least abelist route.
"imagine getting parents to you know parent propely"
How would one actually go about that though?
@frog_reborn @stux @EUCommission Well firstly young children should be supervised on the internet, and i'd install web filtering personally but the difference is that's by the parents choice not mandated by a government entity. It's also more to stop accidental exposure rather than stop someone whos delibrately looking for such content.
All the current approach do is making people look into circumventions and pushes it underground which doesn't help anyone.
⠠⠵ avuko@frog_reborn @Dragon @stux @EUCommission
You could start by mandating 4 day work weeks, so parents could spend more time…
wait for it…
parenting!
Other ideas: reduce working hours, make child care free (which would also stop for-profits from destroying it all), pay teachers more, support voluntary work with kids.
And if you really, actually give a damn about kids, introduce UBI, so parents aren’t forced to choose between feeding their kids, or raising them.
I know, I know: “but how would capitalists make a profit?!”
@avuko @frog_reborn @stux @EUCommission
Sounds mostly sensible to me...
I don't believe capitalism to be the answer, not do I believe communism is either...
People do need to do "work" or things won't happen but the current system is massively broken.
RLR@stux @EUCommission I’m one years old too!
patricus@stux @EUCommission yeah, soon we'll live in a damn dystopian world.
Kid Mania@patricus @stux @EUCommission
Soon...?
I think you mean since AT LEAST 2016.
Weer die vermaledijde Die™ar
@stux @EUCommission nee, want dan word ik moe.
ケレムさん 🏴☠️ イラスト 
@stux my man ❗
mcSlibinas@stux @EUCommission does EUcommission verified age? Looks like NOT!
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@stux @EUCommission I finally surrendered trying to work 'with' governmental 'fake security'. I set up bogus emails, rigorous ad-blocking, MullvadVPN, and when sites don't let me in, I just delete the link and go somewhere that respects privacy. 😜
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Angua 
@stux
Always the same, never fix the actual problem, just use it as a cover for fascist creep.
Opponents of basic security: 
@EUCommission
Always the same, never fix the actual problem, just use it as a cover for fascist creep.
Opponents of basic security:
@EUCommission
diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱VPN's are a right. I do not want my identity to be shared with the exploitive companies slurping up data, aka Palantir. People are being profiled today, kidnapped and murdered by state governments every day, especially here in the USA.
If any of my data happens to be about women's issues, gender, sexual, my government absolutely will put me on lists and my future may be marked. I am illegal in my state to exist now. What happens if I do not use a VPN and cover my tracks?
❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Age verification is not a "good idea" for anyone.
It doesn't stop youngsters from accessing ' illegal" sites, they will find a way around it, but what these laws do accomplish is:
- Everyone, including you, will have to upload their official ID on the internet, thus exposing all *your* personal information to hackers via data leaks.
*Your ID* can then be used to do all sorts of fraudulent activities, and *you* will be responsible for untangling the mess -- it will take years , plus you will be forced to pay out all legal fees, not the website or the government.
Additionally, because the government can monitor every keystroke from your computer or other device, you could be penalized for your opinion....not to mention I don't want to live in a dictatorship like North Korea, China, or Russia --censorship is terrible for democracy.
-kids will learn how to become 'hackers' in order to circumvent law so, I ask you how does this improve the life of children or yourself?
Note: I will continue to post this for all to read every time I see the EU pushing for age verification because what you are doing is morally wrong.
Jernej Virag 
@stux why are you yelling at EU comission due to a research paper reporting on VPNs done by a different organisation? Which itself just quotes another article with your contraversal take?
Do you not even check for truth before falling for social media propaganda?
@jernej @stux The official think tank of EU posted on x the opinion stating:
'Protecting children online is a priority, with new rules being implemented requiring a minimum age for access to some services'.
He is rightfully yelling to the executive branch of EU who will implement the law recommended in this article, because he knows where this is going and wants to prevent it before it passes into law, before it is too late to do anything about it. I hope this answers your question.
@jernej @stux I did, I just quoted to you their tweet. It does not matter what the rest of the article is saying since their summary for the public was this. It is quite clear from the tweet what their position is on the matter and what they want the public and the commission to take from it. Also they actually define themselves as a think tank and serve the same purpose as think tanks.
@JakeKb @stux So you only read the tweet and not the actual report (which is all it is - a report). Ok.
Demanding that EU doesn't commission reports on important topics you dislike is undemocratic and tyrannical. Demanding that results aren't quoted because you don't like them is the same.
If you want it live in the land of fake news where government doesn't research topics before legislating - USA is just across the pond.
@jernej @stux And pushing for internet censorship is not undemocratic and tyrannical? Are you not at all concerned about where this is going? No one suggested EU shouldn't do research, but since no one is god, we have the right to disagree with that research when see it as problematic. Why are you so angry at people expressing very reasonable concerns?
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Patrik SivekThom, exceedingly pure (@[email protected])
This article is 100% bullshit and entirely not supported by the linked document. The bullshit article: https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/ The actual entirely reasonable, detached, fact-based summary of the current state of affairs without any value judgments: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2026/782618/EPRS_ATA(2026)782618_EN.pdf I'm tired boss.
Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱@bammerlaan @pasivek @EUCommission This still does not take the fact out of the equation that the EU IS pushing age verification. Why build a (faulty) app if you don't support it?
People should not accept age verify as something positive.. wtf
@stux @pasivek @EUCommission Definitely agree with you there! Ah, nothing is ever black and white is it 😕
Miss GayleBy encouraging these privacy stripping laws, Europe is ensuring that no dissenter will ever be able to work toward throwing off insane power-mongering authoritarians like trump. The white nationalist christo-fascists have a long, long, long history of killing anyone in their way.
Europe will be responsible for the extermination of lgbtq folks & non-christians in America. And I don't say that lightly. Europe must be a safe harbor for freedom or there won't be one at all.
“Europe will be responsible for the extermination of lgbtq folks & non-christians in America.”
How is that?
Which part of what I wrote did you not understand?
@MissGayle the part I quoted. How would the EU be responsible for something that happens in the US?
So, you don't understand context. Thanks.
@MissGayle would you care to explain? I’d like to understand.
No, you're either a troll or not too bright. When western tech companies roll out their plan for no access to anything without ID, already under way, either Americans will have access to European servers without the threat of doxxing, or we won't. What part of that are you having trouble understanding?
@MissGayle thanks for being so unkind. It’s really what we need.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. I guess I’m one of those ‘not bright’ people you’re talking about.
How will Americans have access to European servers? What does it have to do with doxxing? And why is the EU responsible for what happens to people in the US?
If a mob wants to kill someone, and you shut the door in their face, you may as well have killed them yourself.
I'm not interested in being tone policed by trolls, btw.
@MissGayle sorry it took me a while to understand… you’re being quite cryptic and you’re talking from an American perspective, which outsiders might not have an easy time understanding. Especially unbright people like me.
I’m not a troll. I genuinely didn’t understand, and previously on Mastodon when I kindly asked for clarification I got it, with a smile. Never seen someone on my side being this hostile till now.
Dawid Dettlaff
@stux @EUCommission I think you overestimate the VPN usefulness.
The Anhedonic HedonistThat's why I'm seriously considering dumping this whole internet nonsense and going back to ten-meter radio.
The data rates suck, but it is social.. 😎