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they are working really hard to weasel their way into total mass surveillance where literally everything you do online is known to the government.
very handy to stamp out dissent if you crimialize free speech and then also force everyone to be deanonymized
they really hate that citizens can just criticize them freely
The backhanded way this was last minute added to an unrelated legislation shows that they know what they're doing is both against popular will, and is an evil decision.
In 2023 I was thinking how stupid puritan the Texan politician were. The EU commission and parliament had different ideas.
Turns out the incumbents in EU are very scared as politicians from outside the traditional political families are getting popular votes. And instead of looking into to mirror as to why that is happening, they blame "the internet" and go authoritarian.
Thus joining in the creation of the machinery for mass surveillance and supression.
Currently, only the EU council can still stop this from becoming law. It already passed commission (it's their amendment) and parliament.
The fact that it's happening globally tells me there's more behind this. As you said, only a few short years ago this would seem unthinkable, yet here we are...
It's the next step towards the end of the world wide web.
I'm ok with that
Maybe deglobalization turns out to be a good thing in the end, it's hard to tell. But it's going to be rough.
Why's that?
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.