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"Logged in to Google or Microsoft?"
Let me stop you right there, article - because in 2025? Lol of course I'm not.
I'm not saying this is good, or well thought out - not at all - but I don't think curbing the usefulness of the modern web is the same as ending the free and open web.
Search engines are not free and open tools, they have always been corpo scum tools with a little friendly costume on.
and you know what? if you asked 100 people off the street if we should check people's ages before letting them on the internet, I reckon 90 would say that is a good idea. If it was done via ISO 27566 and some sort of digital token so you don't have to send a scan of physical ID or use a 3rd party processor, it would have popular acceptance in the wider community.
The overlaying of "real world" systems on the internet is inevitable imho. The decade or two we had of relative anonymity and freedom online is going away as there's just too many normies online now, they want this, they expect the same types of frameworks that exist in meatspace to be applied on the internet too. We thought the internet would change the world but the world changed the internet.
@decryption people do not trust platforms with their private information, and want security and privacy. They have nuanced understanding of what should happen if you move past the glib "protect the children" propaganda used to sell stuff like age assurance.
But governments do not want to do that. They want more power and control and do not care to learn about the details.
But governments do not want to do that. They want more power and control and do not care to learn about the details.
@decryption that’s #GlobalTalk!
@decryption whew. 😊 good to hear!
@carlmalamud no not your book at all! More like my incoherent rant about the internet today that reading the travelogue inspired
@decryption is it your forthcoming review or the book that is the "unabomber's manifesto" in question ^^? (Based on the book, the State of Georgia accused me of a "practice of terrorism", so would understand if that was your perception of the latter but hope it will be the former.)
@decryption Can recommend mailing lists, the Gemini protocol, and IRC for three still-extant examples of "nerd Internet".
@decryption Or someone finishes Tribber as a commercial entity, because the new changes created a market for it, and the whole thing goes to shit as anonymous file sharing is made easy and profitable.
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