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Is that a surprise? Don’t we know enough that when they talk about freedom of speech, they mean they should be allowed to insult and incite violence against minorities, but critics against them should not be allowed?

The “EU” is a set of instances with multiple backgrounds and interests. Multiple bodies can work in totally different directions.

There are multiple factors contributing to high murder rates:

• Guns: ban them.
• Mental health: provide free support for mental health issue, including a phone number where people can safely report friends and relatives in crisis. Today if you report, they send police officers totally untrained and unprepared for these situations and that easily ends up in drama
• Gangs: a lot of the murders are gang members against gang members. There is no miraculous solution to that. But I would advocate: decriminalize possession of small amounts of drugs, provide shooting rooms with support (both physical and mental) freely available. I would even support offering drugs substitutes for free under control. If the drug price collapses, their business collapses.

So: vote for someone who will support social science based policies.

I’m sorry there are no easier way. “Get tough on crime” is the solution that was experimented the most and has proven again and again to be inefficient.

Edit: you may already be doing that, don’t take this as an assumption you don’t. I understand the frustration and that feeling of being powerless while people ask you “why aren’t you DOING something about it?”.

But they’ll likely be older, and learn to be more tech savvy to get around the block.

The school my kid attens provide Chromebooks, with a tight control of course.

That’s why 11y old had to learn from one of their classmates how to bypass the control. Thanks to tech protection they were safe from accidentally finding porn (did that ever happen to anyone in real life??) for at least one week.

The only part I mentioned was child development, which research has shown to have a negative impact (just like we did with cigarettes and alcohol).

We all agree. Yet I don’t understand why you so much want to defend a mechanism that is already failing its stated purpose. In case you missed it: it is a miserable total failure. It just increased VPN usage. That, and the massive data collection. Period. Nothing else achieved.

So now I guess it’s going to be ok to control VPN.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vpns-porn-online-safety-act-childrens-commissioner-b2810092.html

That’s going to fail, by the way. Then I guess you must ban Tor at ISP level. Completely block it, for the sake of the children.

Then, then, then…

Then children are still exposed to porn, but we’re working on it! Meanwhile, would you come to the station explain why you visited that website and posted that nasty anonymous comment about the PM last wednesday night?

And eventually, we always, always figure out their leaders don’t abide to the rules they set for others.

Why do we regulate alcohol and cigarettes? Why dont parent’s just parent their kids? How would the kid even bave the money to buy them in the first place? To be clear, when these restrictions were being put in place, people absolutely had the exact same arguments you are making right now. The onus is on the parents.

And so now no kid can’t access alcohol or cigarettes, right? Right?? Aaaaah, yes they can…

Even kids with parents that have reasonable restrictions are easily able to access internet pornography because internet devices are everywhere. Internet devices are easier to access than cigarettes and alcohol, and can do just as much damage to their development. Why wouldn’t the government also control access to confirm someone’s age.

It’s going to have exactly the same efficiency: none. Kids educated enough to know they shouldn’t seek it won’t. The others will definitely find a way to get it. We will never hear about it after. There will be no report, stats, anything. How much stats have you seen on the efficiency of “anti-terrorists” laws?

Please do not respond to me about giving out your ID if you do not acknowledge my comment on use zero knowledge proof’s to verify you’re over an age.

I don’t acknowledge vaporware.

“Child’s protection”, “anti-terrorist”, “against pedophile” so many emotionally triggering words so that we slowly accept more and more control. Had this been proposed 10 years ago, people would have screamed this is “soviet-style”. Nowadays, it’s just one more small step.

I don’t give it another 10 years before you accept webcams in your house with IA monitoring you with complete guaranteed privacy as the IA is only to report cases of harm on children by their caretakers. It will just take a bit more push and a big case of child abuse on the news. We do watch people’s behavior outside the house, right? Why not inside? How many more kids are you ready to sacrifice in the name of privacy??

The internet is different, and it’s currently the wild west.

As opposed to real world where I could buy alcohol without any problem at 15–16 and was offered cigarettes at the same age despite both being forbidden in my country? If kids wants something bad enough, they’ll get it. The stronger the ban, the higher the interest it creates for teens.

Again, if done correctly, it can be done privately and securely.

The only thing you could try is parental control on their devices. Be aware they will seek other devices outside, from their friends, etc. UK has seen an explosion of VPNs use since implementation of their control: it’s miserably failing already.

Or is it? Many adults went through the ID confirmation process…

Education: that works! Mindless coercion never works. But the advocate of these solutions know that very well. The kids were never their target.

You misunderstand him. When he said that space conquest would have casualties, he was thinking about NPCs. He’s the Player1 in this universe. Contrary to all of us, he’s not expandable: the game would instantly ends.

Imagine if someone had travelled to the past to kill Hitler, failed, and then Hitler would include them in his speeches: “I already survived a homicidal maniac!”.

Once you start to have money, you get a money dependency. No matter how rich you get, the “baseline you really need to live the life you want and nothing more” growths together with your wealth.

Take lottery winners and ask them if they could give away half of their gains. Will you be surprised if most of them say no, even though the day before they would have set their “minimum needed to live a happy life for the rest of my days” at a much smaller fraction of it?

Now take a similar population, but who in addition rationalized them deserving that money through their hard work and talent.

Yes, at least for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/clearurls/

Technically that won’t be a baseless conspiracy theory though. Just not “the liberals”, and not hiding “the truth”.

I do 1:1 videocalls on XMPP. Quite some clients implement that now. But there were no videoconferences until very recently. That’s changing, though. See Movim right now, for example.

Main 2 issues with XMPP are inconsistent clients (in terms of GUI but also features wise) and the incredibly, astonishingly, ridiculously sloooooooooooooooow evolution of the protocol through the XSF. Nothing can get in there until it’s “perfect”. Clients devs are reluctant to implement things until the extension is stable. And the best part is this approach hardly work: the best way to figure if something works is to deploy it in larger and larger scales and improve it on the way as you identify corner cases you didn’t think about. Not to review the description for months/year until it qualifies as literature…

And a few years later the bacteria is found to cause even worse diseases…

You know, thinking back about how big the number is, it’s probably both.

Well, the survey does not show the distribution of answers. So my guess (it’s a guess, not data) is the people living in densely populated areas answered lower numbers, and people living in rural or remote areas ridiculously overestimated the number of trans people based on how much of a big “issue” medias are making of them.

“Oh yeah, that’s definitely settled: John has the biggest one! Ok folks, zip up before they realize what we’re doing!”

Or maybe they said it was Venus, an unusual sight, to hide the fact that they were shooting at the moon, which would be significantly more embarassing…

It’s not just the funding, it’s the business overall. Public companies need to show growing revenues year to year, and worse: growing revenues with a minimum yield. A product can grow by attracting more users up to a certain point. Then the only way to grow is by making more money out of the same users base. If the revenue is based on ads:

• Extend the product so that the user’s engagement increases (channels/others kind).
• Add paying features (freemium approach, that includes blue stars or whatever the hell you want it to look like…)
• Serve them ads

Freemium is not always working well and Meta never used it. They have no new great idea to extend the product without eating their other products users bases. So the only one left is more ads.

Funding is not the issue, for-profit companies are. Non-profit is the way to go. Federation is even better as individuals/families/small organizations can run their own servers.-

After all, wxthout proper ID, there is no reason to believe they are ICE and not some street gangs in the kidnapping for ransom business.