VPNs are having a moment. On January 1st, Florida joined 18 other states in implementing an age verification law that burdens Floridians' access to sites that host adult content, including pornography websites like Pornhub. In protest to these laws, PornHub blocked access to users in Florida....
It’s ironic that the EFF proposes its own set of severe restrictions as the better alternative to age verification laws. How about not restricting the internet at all?
Or better yet, teach parents not to neglect their children 😱
We aren’t their children’s caretakers, they should be responsible adults and not let their kids access gore and porn.
Severe restrictions? Seriously?
Perhaps if you are a big tech corporation, considering that the EFF is an advocate group for digital rights and consumer protection policies.
No. Every internet user should agree that some types of content should absolutely be prevented from appearing in public pages.
Which severe restrictions do you mean? The linked article talks mostly about gdpr-like privacy protection stuff, no?
I’m not sure I’m entirely on board with GDPR but (unless I’m very confused) the EFF’s proposal would go further than that.
The proposal would deliberately destroy the business model of large tech companies, which would make a lot of users (most Americans on the internet) quite unhappy and lead to their use of foreign services that don’t have to obey any US law (which is what we’re seeing with the TikTok ban).
Then there’s
“Strictly necessary” is quite a high bar to clear. Does even a non-commercial website like a Lemmy instance currently satisfy that criterion? Would you be willing to risk running an instance if that meant that anyone who disagreed could sue you?