> It's a bit flabbergasting that U.S. tech companies didn't see this coming years ago and lobby hard for the U.S. to repeal anti-privacy legislation like the CLOUD act
The US big tech has been in bed with the US establishment since eternity.
The concept of common-pool resource is the basis of the commons, the default state of mankind since its inception to recent times, and the philosophy of commons is called COMMUNism for a reason. In English, it should have been translated more correctly as COMMONism, from the COMMONS.
Correct. It is therefore COMMUNist with the correct term. That's what communism is - the philosophy of the commons. Except note that the running of that commons, which everyone uses, requires socialist practices (what you mistakenly call communist).
> My hypothesis is that as societies industrialize, they afford their population more and more activities that are simply more fun and rewarding than having children.
Or, as societies industrialize, life becomes more complex, time-consuming, and tiring than the simpler ways of life people were used to and able to manage...
This has nothing to do with parenting. It's surveillance. They failed to do it through child porn argument. They are doing it through 'social media is harmful for children' argument. People did not bite on the former. They ate up the latter out of hate for social media platforms.
Of course. Anyone who has even a little life experience knows that children, even more so, teenagers, will circumvent these measures, so they will fail at scale.
But what won't fail is the obligation to provide your id to 'verification providers', who are obligated to provide it to websites, all of which are obligated to hand over your identity to the authorities the moment they ask - the verification provider included.
So it's just mass surveillance, finally sold to the public through 'think of the children!'.
Yeah, I feel as though people have seen the error of creating a free internet and are trying as much as possible to reverse it. It's kind of like how Photoshop (and most software companies honestly) have seen how selling a license in perpetuity does not work and opt for the rent-seeking monthly subscription route.
The age verification with the EU ID card can be implemented without leaking any identifying information. If it's gonna be like that is questionable, but it's technically possible.
This is surprising to the modern mainstream tech because doing 'one single thing good' and identifying the company with it has become a phenomenon in the West. 'Who are we and what we do' questions get asked - as if companies and everyone in them were teenagers in search of their identities. In a way that is the case - the majority of startups having been staffed by very young people in the mid 2000s made early startups like teenagers themselves. Otherwise big, large companies have been diversified in the West at that time too.
Ironically things are going back to that - now every big tech company that once defined itself with 'one single thing', is trying to do everything to shore up profits...
The US big tech has been in bed with the US establishment since eternity.
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