Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online" (www.techradar.com)
from FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 24 Apr 21:08
https://sh.itjust.works/post/59080807

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/45990864

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Godort@lemmy.ca on 24 Apr 21:49 next collapse

That is the end goal of this legislation, yes.

Scrollone@feddit.it on 24 Apr 22:22 next collapse

Proton CEO can suck my sweaty balls for all I care.

I stopped using Proton as soon as I saw his tweets praising Trump.

lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world on 24 Apr 23:51 collapse

The privacy community will lose their shit if this is even hinted at. Fuck Proton forever

anothermember@feddit.uk on 25 Apr 00:19 collapse

Actually the “privacy community” is already pretty on top of this, see:

lemmy.world/post/24301835

For me, whether it was officially retracted or not there are plenty of options that don’t come with the potential fascist endorsement so I’ll just go with one of them instead.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 25 Apr 05:34 collapse

Already? This was years ago, wasn’t it?

anothermember@feddit.uk on 25 Apr 10:02 collapse

It was last year, and “already” was a response to the presumption that the privacy community didn’t know about it.

the_citizen@lemmy.world on 24 Apr 22:23 next collapse

Freedom of internet is dependent to privacy. Countries’ fake concerns about children only pursue to kill privacy, so freedom. But nobody can take out internet. It’s not how things work here. At least this is what I hope.

mycodesucks@lemmy.world on 25 Apr 00:10 collapse

The next step is ISP regulation. Once the ISPs are forced to enforce all of this crap, the free internet will well and truly be dead.

ISOmorph@feddit.org on 25 Apr 06:35 collapse

I’d be curious to see how they’re gonna sell that. Age verification wouldn’t really work there, since you can’t buy internet access as a minor.

mycodesucks@lemmy.world on 25 Apr 11:15 collapse

They didn’t even have to sell THIS. They just DID it. Public opinion doesn’t matter anymore. Even if it did, this is WAY worse than the anti-Net Neutrality pushes in the past, which eventually won out anyway, and this is getting a FRACTION of the people mobilized against it.

fox2263@lemmy.world on 24 Apr 23:11 next collapse

Aye shame he supported the people enacting it. Could’ve seen that coming a mile off really.

CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world on 25 Apr 00:14 next collapse

Surely the leopards would never eat MY face.

Kirca@lemmy.world on 25 Apr 12:03 collapse

Who did he support?

daannii@lemmy.world on 25 Apr 00:43 next collapse

So does he not know about Tor or the dark web ?

ISOmorph@feddit.org on 25 Apr 06:37 collapse

He does. He also understands that 99% of the world doesn’t, so it has no impact on his statement.

FauxPseudo@lemmy.world on 25 Apr 03:30 next collapse

Life was easier on Usenet.

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works on 25 Apr 07:42 collapse

There is still usenet

icedaemon0@lemmy.world on 25 Apr 04:52 collapse

That’s the point (the govs want)

LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip on 25 Apr 08:54 collapse

…and Big Tech (there user tracking/profiling becomes much more valuable when there is a real name associated with it).