About the Online Safety Act in the UK and the Digital Services Act in Europe

  • Xaphanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    10 months ago

    I’ve already said goodbye to “the internet” 3 times. Social media destroyed web 2.0, which destroyed the original web, which destroyed the original Usenet and telnet internet.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
    49·
    10 months ago

    The UK populace doesn’t get nearly enough shit for all of the bullshit they have caused. They are the fucking Alabama of Europe.

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
    36·
    10 months ago

    “What we are witnessing right now is the death of the free internet and the birth of a new digital dictatorship. No longer can we be trusted to decide for ourselves what content is appropriate or correct. Everything must instead be filtered through the state’s definition of ‘safety,’ telling us what is safe to say, see, or believe. Under the guise of protecting children and fighting ‘hate,’ governments are creating the most comprehensive censorship apparatus the West has ever seen.”

    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
      5·
      10 months ago

      Nothing to do with the states definition of safety, but just an excuse to do more surveillance and collect more data.

    • Misk@lemmy.world
      33·
      10 months ago

      I can’t help but think this could have been avoided if people would take some responsibility and turn on parental controls for their kids. 90% of the shit they’re trying to “protect the children” from would be invisible and they wouldn’t have this trojan horse stuffed with fascism.

        • Misk@lemmy.world
          4·
          10 months ago

          Hard agree. My point was that the “safety” premise would be unworkable politically if so many people didn’t just let young kids loose with unrestricted smartphones in the first place.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      I have a long-running theory that we’re the US’s testing ground for authoritarian nonsense. If they roll it out here and it doesn’t get too much resistance, it’ll show up in the US in the next 3-5 years.

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    151·
    10 months ago

    Bender-Meme:

    *Selfhosters: I build my own Internet With Blackjack and Hookers

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      10 months ago

      You joke but it would be great if we could restart the web. No bots, no corps, you have to be a nerd to get in. Maybe some specific protocol where you need a certain modem to access it, to keep other people out…

      Maybe this is what the dark web is? I haven’t dabbled.

      • NicolaHaskell@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Elites abandoning a world they judged unworthy in favor of vendor lock-in sounds pretty dark to me

          • NicolaHaskell@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            An iPhone can communicate with other devices over open protocols, which is different from the proposed un-reachability and privileged access to the network.

  • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    10 months ago

    this community is dead, the day Canada, U.S. and Eu asks lemmy to “verify” our ages

    or we’re all on a vpn connected to a server in ??? Mongolia?

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish
    134·
    10 months ago

    Personally I believe the world was a better place before the Internet existed. It was more personal, more local. The billionaire tech class was created by the Internet and are actively damaging the world for their own personal gain. Good mental health is almost non-existent for those who are always online - and that is a purposeful construct so that they will be online more and create even more revenue for the tech billionaires. The initial romantic notion that the internet would provide education and information and connection has been dwarfed by the damage it has caused. The most ‘internet raised generation - Gen Z’ is notoriously disconnected and isolated compared to previous generations. In short, if the Internet ceased to exist tomorrow, a decade from now the world would probably be a better place.

    • Majestic@lemmy.ml
      16·
      10 months ago

      The billionaire tech class was created by the Internet and are actively damaging the world for their own personal gain.

      I hate to tell you but there were billionaires and multi-millionaires way before the internet and they were damaging the world horrendously for greed and personal gain. They even have this system structured around allowing them to do that called capitalism.

      So no the internet didn’t create that. Capitalism created that. Just as it created the climate change denial oil industry and the people who made money off of destroying the planet with that and would still be doing so without the internet. Just as it made dishonest press barons who loved Nazi Germany such as Randolph Hearst way before the internet existed and for a more modern example Rupert Murdoch. Just as before that it created incentives to hide and denial tobacco caused cancer or that asbestos caused cancer and other diseases or that lead poisoned us especially children. And on and on. Or the Triangle Shirt-waist fire and thousands of incidents just like that around the world where people are killed in poorly maintained factories kept that way out of greed. Or companies that pump poison into the water and air because it’s cheaper. I could go on forever.

      • phx@lemmy.ca
        15·
        10 months ago

        Yeah I’d say capitalism ruined the Internet, rather than the other way around. Early Internet was janky but amazing

        • network_switch@lemmy.ml
          2·
          10 months ago

          I see the modern internet as sometime in the early 2010s when YouTube shifted heavily towards monetisation and changing up the UI for that, Facebook started to shift from VC money to monetizing the platform culminating in its post-IPO super monetization. Facebook buying Instagram and then eventually monetizing it heavy with advertisements

          Facebook IPO, YouTube profitability push from Google, Instagram profitability push from Facebook. That all came together to birth the modern online influencer. An incredibly fast rapid shift from a short decade of body acceptance and mild movements against over consumption to now 6th graders have skincare routines and therapy shopping seems bigger than it has ever been

    • Misk@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 months ago

      I thought I was the only one pondering on this. It’s been a wild ride and I’m so glad I got to take part in the 90s, when web 1.0 was wild and free. What a blast that was.

      But it’s over now, we’ve ruined it, like we ruin everything, and I hope soon we’ll all be collectively ready as a species to dance on the grave of our dead internet.

      F

    • Zink@programming.dev
      2·
      10 months ago

      Yeah. I can’t stay away completely, but it is unquestionable how much better I am in general when I spend more free time outside versus in front of a screen.

      Edit: I don’t mean to make screens sound like the bad guy. It’s more about engaging all of your senses and interacting with 100% of your immediate environment, rather than keeping your vision and mind focused on the 24/7 fire hose of only the 0.001% most potent triple-distilled negativity sourced from the entire fucking planet.

      The internet is like having omnipotence but only for the knowledge that messes with our brains. We don’t get to see all the nice shit from across the planet 50x a day.

  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 months ago

    Wait I don’t understand. Did they cancel https? How about ftp? Ssh?

    Or are they requiring some half baked bullshit in a browser to catch the lowest common denominator?