This was bound to happen, and it’s ridiculous

  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
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    It feels like a return of the pornography/video games/rock music moral panic of the late 20th century. I wish these conservative idiots would just fuck off. We’ll do anything before we tackle things that are really affecting children. Like poverty and hunger, in one of the world’s richest countries. We’re a joke of a country, no wonder people keep making fun of us. We deserve it.

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      Honestly, it feels more sinister. Sure, they say they want to eliminate this privacy tool because children could use it to watch porn, but realistically they’re not a fan of anybody using a VPN.

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        It seems like a perpetual panic, sustained because it creates a lever of exploitation to control the gullible. Like you can read complaints about “oversexed youth” from time periods when pornography was totally banned and women were essentially chattel. And hey, Boomers didn’t have internet porn and they are fucked.

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      Are not the US citizen a joke, you can not blame people who were educated in ignorance by the Governments, more in the fear of God than in the lack of reasoning capacity in a pseudo-democracy. Living in abubble and helpless in shock, when they visit Europe, seeing what means living safe and protected, with rights they even didn’t know that they exist. This is only sad, we make fun of your crappy fascist system and the current pedo-nazi asshole of president, not the people which don’t know it better.

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          Some countries of the EU and UK isn’t part of the EU. Europe has one of the strongest privacy laws, it’s a constitutional basic right, because of this the acrobacies of right wing politicians to find a manner to surround it without violating the user privacy rights, but it’s nearly impossible and for sure it will cost time until something like this is implemented, and more until it is implemented in all countries, which is another problem. Spain at least is clear, childrens are responsability of their parents, period.