cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46331006
It’s ironic to see those same global elites who love partying with the likes of known & convicted child sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein now urging worldwide restrictions on E2E / VPN & promoting age, biometric, and identity verification online - all in the name of protecting children.
It’s also highly suspicious that so many of the world’s biggest countries are trying to implement this wider internet control at the same time.
Feels like a major push toward authoritarianism to me.
It’s messed up how the people always have to fight to wrest any rights from those in power, and then fight even harder to keep them!
Very suspicious. This isn’t the typical one country implemented something successfully and the rest follows. Instead loads of countries suddenly are pushing the same narrative into mainstream discussions without any clear reason. I wonder who is behind this.
It’s just the big tech Corporation wanting influence over the Internet and capitalism doing it’s thing
You’re probanly right. I do remember reading this post about a guy who traced pretty much all age verification law proposals in the USA back to Meta and their representatives.
IIRC it’s because it’s more difficult for smaller companies to pay for age verification services thus eliminating the competition of big tech
wonder
Yes, it’s super weird, not like anything I have followed before. The pace and coordination is incredible. Did you see this yet? https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
It is to protect themselves by gradually removing people’s ability to spread information and organize pseudoanonymously
Honestly I keep coming back to this conclusion as well, but we can’t prove it, actually it feels like most people I know will only accept articles by major newspapers as a source these days anyway?
