mjr

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[–] mjr 12 points 3 months ago

The EU that seems to be considering the evil "chat control" law to spy on everyone's private messages? Yeah, right. Von der Leyen is a snooper at heart.

[–] mjr 0 points 3 months ago

No, I'm saying cyclists injure fewer pedestrians per year than sidewalks do, which is what your disagreeing comment appeared to be replying to. It's a recorded fact that cyclists injure fewer pedestrians per year than sidewalks. For my country, that's in the Recorded Road Casualties of Great Britain dataset.

I replied about your assumptions in another comment.

[–] mjr 2 points 3 months ago

Not impossible, but very very rare in practice.

And whether the driver is liable varies around the world. Most countries require drivers not to hit dumb animals, including drunk humans.

[–] mjr 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How can you disagree with a recorded fact? 🙄

[–] mjr 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No, you have IRV, not any proportional system. IRV is better than most-takes-all but it's still a malfunction. Labor ended up with 55% after voters for smaller parties were denied their first choice entirely.

[–] mjr -3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In other words, whatever information you collect to do the age verification, unless you already have it, with the user's consent, for some other purpose, you must not store their information.

A lovely fairy story, based on ignoring all past and current law-breaking by the tech bro companies!

But again, you mentioned the US government. What does that have to do with this? This is a law passed in Australia, but the Australian government. An entirely different country, and one with an actually functioning government and legislature.

  1. Most of the media companies are subject to US government control. If US says to track someone but Aus law says not to, who do you think they'll obey?
  2. Australia doesn't have an actually functioning legislature at the moment, with Labor getting over half the lower house seats from about a third of the votes, but I doubt that's changed this bad law much. If anything, more L+N input would probably have been worse and I don't know the other party views on it.
[–] mjr 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As a European 'cooker' was new to me, but I found https://cookerpedia.org/wiki/Cooker which is probably it.

I hope you're right that it's nonsense but it's way too obvious that this law ain't gonna achieve its stated aim and has huge negative drawbacks for me to dismiss concerns so readily. Governments and oligarchs around the world seem mad keen on getting everyone's ID and biometrics with broad consent, including the exceptions to most privacy laws, and they usually seem to tie ID laws to "won't somebody think of the children" pleas.

As others point out, the big media companies don't have to change their algos to stop harming children or adults. Just gather their ID and whatever lies about age.

[–] mjr 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't you need skilled people to train others?

[–] mjr 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

No mention of enforcement in that article. No kids getting fined or arrested for using VPNs or buying accounts off others. This law is primarily a Trojan horse to build the ID document and facial recognition databases and smash the scourge of anonymous people criticising governments and oligarchs.

[–] mjr 6 points 3 months ago

Professional means available for hire, doesn't it?

[–] mjr 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Spain one of the major funders? That's gonna hurt.

[–] mjr 7 points 3 months ago

I wonder if they'll still hold semi-finals if this keeps on.

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