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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 115 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They are not doing it to protect kids, don't perpetuate the bullshit claim used to surveil the globe.

[–] gurty@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago

*Government: [insert blatant authoritarian/fascist requirement]… for the benefit of the kids. *

Its probably smarter to assume that every decision a gov makes is an attempt at backdoor-ing more surveillance.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Still this is the kind of mechanism that would help parents give their children a safe internet

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 45 points 4 days ago

They're not doing it to protect kids.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Man that cookie banner is unhinged. WTF, Neowin?

How is that legal?

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Kinda feels like it's fishing for data about what particular types of data people are ok sharing and don't want to share.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 days ago

Children, terrorism, criminals or drugs. If one argument stops working they'll move to the next one.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Meh private sector fucking up Internet went into overdrive about 15 years ago.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Clipper chip all over again

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would argue that started happening the moment they got online. The dot com crash didn’t happened for nothing.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The dot com crash was idiot VC money trying to open, mymonkeyshit.com.

The internet was a blast in the 90s until about 2015.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Some of it was VC money, but quite a bit of it was the exact same thing that happened when the App Store became popular. People were going out of their way to try to create things that would be bought out by larger companies.

I was around in the 2000s when YouTube got bought by Google. I don’t disagree that the Internet used to be a blast, but I do disagree that corporate interests weren’t already fucking it up and going into overdrive by the end of the 90s.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 days ago

That's why we pay politicians to regulate them in a sensible non-for-their-profit manner.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Kill all the kids.

[–] 404found@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Will that translate into less school shootings and teachers raping children?

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Of course not! They're doing that to protect children as well.

[–] PostProcess@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Governments are ruining the internet to protect kids but there is a much better way...

To fuck up the internet? I think they are trying on all fronts to be honest...

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

namely, ISPs being required by law to ship routers to customers with a family DNS pre-configured. Candidate family DNS services that I am thinking of include Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.3 […]

There's StevenBlack hosts, no need to centralize DNS to a provider with a shocking privacy policy.