Yes, but on average what is the minimum percentage of support needed for an authoritarian regime to remain in power? 30%, 20%, 10%, 5%? Currently, less than 30% of Americans seem to support MAGA. Will that be enough to break this tyrannical trend?

And the new internet that is on the horizon will be the definitive establishment of these same billionaires as feudal lords.

With something like a physical gift card.

Go to a store or kiosk, show them your ID card or driver’s license, and they’ll give you a card randomly chosen from the shelf with a code to activate the +18 version of any social network of your choice.

Each code could only be used once. People would have to buy more, at a symbolic cost, for each social network they wished to activate.

I would tend to be against this in the same way, but at least it would be something I could understand where the objective is actually what is being presented (protecting the children), albeit misguided, because to me it is clear that what is currently being promoted and proposed has nothing to do with age verification, but rather with mass surveillance, marketing and censorship.

It seems that our politicians are paving the way for dictatorship with these mass surveillance initiatives.

A social credit system would be the next step after online ID verification and ChatControl come into effect, and then our generous Lords would sleep more soundly knowing they were safe. Poor things, currently suffering from an insomnia that can only be consequence of the injustices they must be dreaming to commit.

Greetings from Portugal.

And Persona (it’s from the same guy).

I also don’t understand why they’re bothered, a name like that says it all. It’s the same as calling themselves Evil Inc., Satan Corp. or something.

There’s no law anymore. These people have already gotten away with things much worse.

There are no extraterrestrials secretly visiting Earth. If that happened, we would already know. It would be common knowledge.

Of course, just listen to the CEO of Palantir, he already admitted that that’s his goal. By inference, we can extrapolate that this is the goal of all major business leaders of these companies who are developing AI systems. They need more data to compete with China, and if that requires the West to have authoritarian mass surveillance systems, so be it.

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-a-surveillance-state-is-preferable-to-china-winning-the-ai-race-2000683144