Yes, but it's total nonsense that children under 16 can have unfettered access to the internet. The EU has many faults, but I totally agree with the strict age verification requirements that will prevent children to access to social media and adult content. It's a public health emergency. And, to be honest I think that you were also carried out by the mere power of the media, as we all have been at times. So don't beat yourself up too much. We aren't psychologically equipped to resist the massive opinion streams that seem to cater of our psychological needs. All of us love to think that our opinions are just ours, but often this is not the case. It takes time, maturity and humility to discern that we can be, and are, influenced.
If age verification were not a Trojan horse for mass internet surveillance I would still disagree with you because it should be parents responsibility to limit their access, not the government. Let the government decide what your children can see online and soon your government will be filtering the internet to ONLY the government’s approved messaging.
Governments are perfectly capable of surveillance right now, without age verification. All EU countries have rules mandating telecom provider to keep access logs for a time period compatible with police investigations. I disagree with you, by the way, because not all children will have parents capable or willing to protect them. Those libertarian ideas always end up leaving the most vulnerable behind.
I’m a misandrist but only towards cringe-inducing male redditors like the one featured in that screenshot
Yes, but it's total nonsense that children under 16 can have unfettered access to the internet. The EU has many faults, but I totally agree with the strict age verification requirements that will prevent children to access to social media and adult content. It's a public health emergency. And, to be honest I think that you were also carried out by the mere power of the media, as we all have been at times. So don't beat yourself up too much. We aren't psychologically equipped to resist the massive opinion streams that seem to cater of our psychological needs. All of us love to think that our opinions are just ours, but often this is not the case. It takes time, maturity and humility to discern that we can be, and are, influenced.
If age verification were not a Trojan horse for mass internet surveillance I would still disagree with you because it should be parents responsibility to limit their access, not the government. Let the government decide what your children can see online and soon your government will be filtering the internet to ONLY the government’s approved messaging.
Governments are perfectly capable of surveillance right now, without age verification. All EU countries have rules mandating telecom provider to keep access logs for a time period compatible with police investigations. I disagree with you, by the way, because not all children will have parents capable or willing to protect them. Those libertarian ideas always end up leaving the most vulnerable behind.
If you can dream, and not make dreams your master;
If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools…
Relevant Kipling, I think.