Greece passes under-15 social media ban, and every user may soon have to prove their age
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May sound like a noble cause on a surface level, but unfortunately it's yet another move for big tech to track our every move and control our lives.
Someone needs to make a sequel to Papers, Please for this shit.
Oh boy, France level strikes incoming. Get ready to be canceled, Greece.
I don't know how I feel. If these laws harm big tech... But they set bad privacy precedent....
Big tech is getting the contracts to collect data for verification services. This is a win for big tech.
They don't harm big tech. Big tech are lobbying for this change. They do it to so instead of actually making their platforms less harmful (to people of all ages) they shift blame to users.
And get very detailed personal information about people
You should oppose age verification because it will make it harder to run Piefed instances.