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Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516996-banning-children-from-vpns-and-social-media-will-erode-adults-privacy/

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep, that’s the plan.

    It should be obvious by now that governments don’t give one fuck about protecting kids. Not one single fuck.

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    • derAbsender@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well… Fucking and children and people associated with power …. We have learned there is no real “not” in this Chain…

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Internet was cool while it lasted

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    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’ll just continue to make our own internet with blackjack and hookers. Too much knowledge is already out.

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      • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Isn’t that just the “dark web”

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    • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Internet is just a bunch of AS running open source protocols on commercially available infrastructure. It’s doing fine. The hosted commercial services might be fucked, but you can run your own.

      You’re using such a service right now.

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      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        no you can’t “run your own” for very long if that means you are breaking the law and can be legally punished for not complying with laws like this :(

        Governments of the world, get the fuck out of the Internet.

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Until the government beats down the door of whoever’s not following their BS laws and shuts them down.

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  • Vieric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a feature, not a bug.

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    • myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To reinforce the plausible deniability of politicians of course. It’s all about manufacturing consent.

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  • mickus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Considering the recent comments from Merz that is indeed the point

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    • Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Du hast Fotzenfritz falsch geschrieben

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    • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      These guys are actually begging for it.

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To be fair this kind of thing certainly hasn’t gone wrong with Germany before!

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  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Age restrictions and id verification side step the real issue that they don’t want to deal with.

    Actually regulating the companies making these addictive, harmful sites.

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    • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The real problem is children on the Internet. The real solution is getting parents to use parental control software.

      If you’re a full grown adult using Facebook, much less addicted to it, ya get what ya deserve.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s frustrating that they act like it’s private right now. The whole situation is typical absurd human behavior.

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  • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For the folks not exposed to the plan.

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  • BranBucket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Algorithm-based, ad supported social media is a public health crisis and damages people of all ages. It should be destroyed. At that point we don’t have to worry about it’s effect on kids or them using VPNs to circumvent age restrictions.

    Seems like a more effective solution to me.

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  • Sunshine@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The only way to use VPN with how things are going at this rate is through mail in cash or Monero.

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yet another mullvad W

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    • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With a bit of infrastructure, today you can detect and disrupt any VPN session. This is coming soon to your country, too.

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      • pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You also can avoid all of these disruptions by camouflaging your packets as some generic protocol, which is already quite easy e.g. in Mullvad by using shadowsocks and ai disruption (randomising, among others, packet size and intervals). In fact, it will always be impossible to detect VPNs without deep packet inspection - and that would require banning ALL internet traffic encryption, which seems unrealistic because of the astronomical downsides, even in today’s political situation.

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  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep, and “age verification” is just a euphemism for identity verification.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Corporate needs you to find the difference between [UK] and [China]

    They are the same picture .jpg

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  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which is the entire point.

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  • Greddan@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good luck! My child is behind 7 proxies!

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, and it’s also a bad idea that has no place in a free society for many other reasons.

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  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What if you buy your child a VPN that is outside of UK?

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And that’s why the UK law is so stupid.

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The global pedofile oligarch greater Israel project noose tightens

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  • gnuthing@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And here I don’t let my kids access the internet at all without a VPN

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