EU parliament accepted a last minute amendment, mandating age verification for pornographic (whatever that is) content online, punishable with up to one year prison sentence.
This was a last minute addition to a directive concerning CSAM. Because adults accessing porn need to be de-anonymised to avoid child exploitation?
It’s too commercialized. It spreads misinformation, fear, and hate all to make some asshole richer. It keeps our attention at all hours. Our kids are glued to screens and more depressed and lonely than ever.
A smaller decentralized Internet would benefit people, however uncomfortable it might make them at first.
There won’t be a smaller decentralized internet. The internet isn’t the problem, it’s the services people choose to use and who owns them. There is just as much misinformation on Lemmy as any other network.
Yeah, and it’s shitty here too. I’m bored at work.
Sadly, this legislation does exactly the opposite: it makes the barrier to entry higher. Restricted to larger groups that can bear the cost of compliance. Ending in a oligopoly, where individuals can’t participate unless they use those platforms.