The same government that last minuted attached this amendment to an unrelated directive asks you to trust them with your most private information. 🙄

What an odd thing to brag about. Sounds like you handled it perfectly :)

Yes it’s a directive. Currently it passed the EU commission (it’s their proposal) and parliament. It still needs to pass council.

After that, each member country of the EU must implement it in their respective country laws.

Yes. Anyone that can request both the logs of this third party and the website fully deanonymises the users.

Who could have this access? The same people that last minute added this amendment to unrelated legislation. It’s even easier this way: they have to strongarm only a few “age verification providers”, then follow the tokens.

Additionally, the amendment is a stepping stone to outlaw other privacy techniques such as VPNs.

Foreign websites still don’t comply? We have no choice but to build the great firewall of EU. For the children.

I think the overarching theme is that the EU wants more and more power and control.

In the case you describe: it’s by taking away freedom from software providers. In the case of this law, it’s by taking away freedom from their citizens.

Less agency and freedom for others, more control for and subjugation to them, is what motivates both - Fun when they do it to others, less fun now they’re doing it to you too.

Especially considering the backhanded way this amendmend was last-minute shoehorned onto unrelated legislation. They know it’s against general will and good.

“Do you want children to be exploited? No? Then do as I say”

In 2023 I was thinking how stupid puritan the Texan politician were. The EU commission and parliament had different ideas.

Turns out the incumbents in EU are very scared as politicians from outside the traditional political families are getting popular votes. And instead of looking into to mirror as to why that is happening, they blame “the internet” and go authoritarian.

Thus joining in the creation of the machinery for mass surveillance and supression.

You sure you read the correct document?

The one I linked clearly cites soviet sources describing the USSR third reich collaborarion untill Barbarossa.

They go hand-in-hand, as all wars do. I’ve had a look and it’s on Anna’s archive as well.

It’s well documented indeed. You can read more here if you’re interested.

Impressive!

World War II began with a coordinated attack on Poland conducted by the Third Reich and the USSR, led by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin respectively. As of 1 September 1939, the very first day of World War Two, both totalitarian regimes held joint military action against Poland. Starting from 1 September, German bombers were guided onto their targets in Poland from a radio station located in Minsk

In accordance with the secret protocol as to Hitler-Stalin Pact, also known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the new allies – Germany and the Soviet Union – were to jointly invade Poland. Red Army troops were to march into Poland three days following the Reich’s attack. Joseph Stalin, however, did not adhere to the protocol, with his troops advancing into Poland only 17 days after the Germans hit. The delay was caused by concerns over the propaganda discourse in the West, which Stalin wanted to focus on Germany solely.

The class struggle is a cornerstone of Karl Marx’s philosophy. It requires a restructuring of society in accordance with communism. When put in practice, this brought about genocide: the killing of 10 to 15 percent of a given society as well as annihilating its elites and those strata of society that were unwelcome in a communist state. For communists they stood in the way of communist rule and of harnessing entire societies under a totalitarian regime.

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We all bow, curtains close. End scene.

They can send XMR directly to the address of the creator. Why would you prefer an intermediary? I don’t think that recurrent payments, initiated by the platform, are possible. So I can’t quite see the benefits of introducing a middle man?

Can you explain why and how? Do you imagine other (better?) batteries, or the disappearance of the need for batteries?

I prefer someone with neither napoleon nor jesus complex.

Of course. My work and my friends are quite international is all. With my family I speak my native tongue.

I spend more time speaking English than my native language.

2nd person recommending that channel. I know what to watch tonight.

Didn’t expect a stardew valley recommendation, but will give it a try too. Can’t hurt!

Thanks, wise Owl!

Impressive :D Could just do that for the joke 🤔😄

The EU, like Texas, Florida, etc wants age verification on porn websites. To “safeguard children” ofcourse.

They pinky promise that the surveillance machine they’re building will never be used for harm!