Online threats to children are real, but the headlong pursuit of age verification that we’re seeing around the world is unacceptable in its approach and far too broad in scope — and we simply can’t afford to get this wrong.
To be clear, parents’ concerns are valid and sincere. Few people would argue that kids should have unfettered access to adult material, to self-harm how-tos, to social media platforms that manipulate them and expose them to abuse.
But it’s the very depth of those worries that is being cynically exploited. Age verification as is currently being proposed in country after country would mean the death of anonymity online.
And we know exactly who stands to gain: The same tech giants who built the privacy nightmare that the internet is today.
I mean, I’ve got boxes full of physical books and self hosted movies and Tv. At that point, I’ll just stop using the internet. I need to go outside more anyway.
My mother in law got me essentially the bible of DIY gardens for the Flemish region. I learned that there are differences just in tool styles an hour drive away from eachother already.
I could read that for a years and still learn things!
Finally all my friends that been giving me shit about having a dvd collection can eat shit.
I was finally ready to clean out my closet and get rid of all my old movies and games. But now…
I’ve got a mean collection myself. I have saved every cassette, record , DVD , VHS , book , magazine ( some bit the dust but anything with good info stayed) , zine and CD I’ve ever baught since I was a young teen ( and their many versions of various players for the many formats)
I’ve had more than a few people appear angry that I have kept all these “things” in my life. Blows my mind that they never saw this coming. …I guess I can rent my dad’s and books
I put my 500+ collection of DVDs into several of those old CD storage sleeves cases you used to see back in the 90s. They are safe and sound, ready for when things go too far.
Disc rot is still a thing. Warner Bros DVDs produced between 2005 and 2009 are especially affected.
Yeah. You probably want to rip them asap. But that would be quite a PITA with that many DVDs
Did not know that and will now be ripping as many as I can.
Mine are ready to go at a moment notice 🙌
This was fun to zoom in on and check the titles. Also, good to see an All Elite fan in the wild.
I’ve been watching wrestling since the late 80s and I enjoy all the promotions. I stopped watching regularly around 2002ish. I came back when AEW debuted. I tried watching WWE but it just lost its spark for me. I keep up with news and clips but I don’t watch the weekly programming.
Any standout movies?
Cube 2 is an obscure gem for me. I really like ‘where are we and how did we get here?’ horror movies. Not sure if you saw Cube 3 but it was… not aa good, lmao.
I have only seen the first one, but I did hear Cube Zero was the weakest of the lot.
Your TV is missing
The next step will be to make more essential services online only, so people have to use the internet.
Harder to organize protests though. Like if they implement a new renter’s/homeowner tax, or sales tax, or whatever, that means we’d have to sell our books to make ends meet. And then make “digitally inciting” protests illegal too maybe so you don’t feel comfortable even discussing it on your devices. (Not that our opsec today is sufficient, wager it’s not for like 95+% of us, but this feels yet worse)
Scary stuff
Exactly, well go a step back, communities will thrive.
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