Also, do you really want everyone in your wedding photos to be staring at their phone to take pictures?

The decision was made according to the report after the Commission became aware of the group’s existence last month and deemed the risk of compromise too high. While there is no evidence yet that communication has actually been intercepted, the threat situation has escalated.

No, they invented mastodon. Which is the thinks they’re adjusting.

They didn’t invent HTTP either, which they’re not claiming ownership of by using it in mastodon.

I don’t think it’s too much for the company that makes mastodon to claim mastodon is “it’s decentralised social network”. The way I read it they don’t claim ownership, they claim to be the author.

Well, in that case I guess it’s okay to commit crimes and distort information as an archiving service. Anonymity above all

Which is something you can fight in court, not by committing another crime

And also altered content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance

What’s to stop people from providing that service to buy people alcohol?

For an implementation to work, it should: * Let the service know that the user is an adult by providing a verifiable proof of adulthood (eg. A proof that’s signed by a trusted authority/government) * Not let the service know any other information about the user besides what they already learn through http or TCP/IP *

Seems like that’s exactly what https://yivi.app/en/ can do.

https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/ has a good overview how bad it really is