@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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@stux @EUCommission imagine getting parents to you know parent propely rather than just banning everything... What a concept.

@Dragon @stux @EUCommission

"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.

@Dragon
Kids are searching - and finding - ways to circumvent restrictions, it doesn't matter who sets them. Proposing parenting as a solution just leaves individuals to deal with unhealthy services that really should be regulated more heavily.

Also: age appropriate services that kids would actually want to use would be nice, but I guess there's no money to be made from something like that.

@frog_reborn @stux @EUCommission

@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.