As much as I agree that Europe needs to break the power of Big Tech, Durov actually has a point.
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As much as I agree that Europe needs to break the power of Big Tech, Durov actually has a point.
Mandatory age checks will be the end of the open web.
“But the children…” is always the rhetorical device of choice to justify more surveillance. Meanwhile a pedo ring rules the world, with plaintext emails, without facing consequences.
If the EU is serious about confronting Big Tech, it should abolish anti-circumvention laws, as @pluralistic argues. Invest in open source, instead of wiring massive sums to Microsoft every month. And tax billionaires out of existence forchrissake.
Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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As much as I agree that Europe needs to break the power of Big Tech, Durov actually has a point.
Mandatory age checks will be the end of the open web.
“But the children…” is always the rhetorical device of choice to justify more surveillance. Meanwhile a pedo ring rules the world, with plaintext emails, without facing consequences.
If the EU is serious about confronting Big Tech, it should abolish anti-circumvention laws, as @pluralistic argues. Invest in open source, instead of wiring massive sums to Microsoft every month. And tax billionaires out of existence forchrissake.
Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
@pluralistic @guidostevens Given the recent document drop about how the social media giants deliberately targeted kids & teens to get them addicted to their services, maybe go after the problem, which is the social media giants.
TECH OVERSIGHT REPORT: UNSEALED COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW TEEN ADDICTION WAS BIG TECH’S “TOP PRIORITY” - Tech Oversight Project
New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials. The documents provide smoking-gun evidence […]
Tech Oversight Project (techoversight.org)
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As much as I agree that Europe needs to break the power of Big Tech, Durov actually has a point.
Mandatory age checks will be the end of the open web.
“But the children…” is always the rhetorical device of choice to justify more surveillance. Meanwhile a pedo ring rules the world, with plaintext emails, without facing consequences.
If the EU is serious about confronting Big Tech, it should abolish anti-circumvention laws, as @pluralistic argues. Invest in open source, instead of wiring massive sums to Microsoft every month. And tax billionaires out of existence forchrissake.
Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
@guidostevens@kolektiva.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Precisely. Big Tech can afford implementing whatever it takes for the age checks. But every small web forum will be banned by this, as none of them can afford the tech for this. -
As much as I agree that Europe needs to break the power of Big Tech, Durov actually has a point.
Mandatory age checks will be the end of the open web.
“But the children…” is always the rhetorical device of choice to justify more surveillance. Meanwhile a pedo ring rules the world, with plaintext emails, without facing consequences.
If the EU is serious about confronting Big Tech, it should abolish anti-circumvention laws, as @pluralistic argues. Invest in open source, instead of wiring massive sums to Microsoft every month. And tax billionaires out of existence forchrissake.
Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
@guidostevens on a slightly different topic, but from the same story:
"The allegations underlying today’s raid are baseless and X categorically denies any wrongdoing"
So that whole sexual abuse image generation stuff never happened? Or was it rightdoing?
Gaslighting or the worse choice?
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As much as I agree that Europe needs to break the power of Big Tech, Durov actually has a point.
Mandatory age checks will be the end of the open web.
“But the children…” is always the rhetorical device of choice to justify more surveillance. Meanwhile a pedo ring rules the world, with plaintext emails, without facing consequences.
If the EU is serious about confronting Big Tech, it should abolish anti-circumvention laws, as @pluralistic argues. Invest in open source, instead of wiring massive sums to Microsoft every month. And tax billionaires out of existence forchrissake.
Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
@guidostevens ah yes, my own government telling that Durov's lying with this... it's always for the children's safety, ay?
How the hell is this even happening world wide? Like, we're just the latest country trying to apply this bs, but after UK and Australia, I feel like all countries are trying to do something similar...
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@guidostevens ah yes, my own government telling that Durov's lying with this... it's always for the children's safety, ay?
How the hell is this even happening world wide? Like, we're just the latest country trying to apply this bs, but after UK and Australia, I feel like all countries are trying to do something similar...
@guidostevens this is a waste of resources, time, and will bring nothing positive to the users, I'm sure of it.
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As much as I agree that Europe needs to break the power of Big Tech, Durov actually has a point.
Mandatory age checks will be the end of the open web.
“But the children…” is always the rhetorical device of choice to justify more surveillance. Meanwhile a pedo ring rules the world, with plaintext emails, without facing consequences.
If the EU is serious about confronting Big Tech, it should abolish anti-circumvention laws, as @pluralistic argues. Invest in open source, instead of wiring massive sums to Microsoft every month. And tax billionaires out of existence forchrissake.
Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
@guidostevens @pluralistic One thing I've noticed when main stream discuss this is they never mention monopolies, or Windows, or MS Office. Maybe iPhone and Android. It's like it's too painful to consider the MS basis of thier digital world.
Main stream often don't mention open source and it existing forever. That there has always been those pushing back. Or that some economists have been trying to highlight the market problem just as long. MS has had multiple monopoly cases against, but they were weak and basically the cost of doing business, so changed little. It laid a path others followed for their own fiefdoms.
It's great main stream is more awake, but they aren't fully awake yet.
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