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EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/eu-kids-act-wont-keep-internet-accountable-and-trustworthyposted in Technology
EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/eu-kids-act-wont-keep-internet-accountable-and-trustworthyReplying to @schizoidman@lemmy.zip
When a citizen’s initiative presents a serious issue, gets a record number of signatures, and provides some good, easy to implement solutions - the European Comission says it’ll do nothing, because it wants to focus on deregulation.
The same Comission is perfectly fine with implementing new, insanely vague and/or complicated laws that benefit literally nobody other than big tech companies, at the expense of everyone else.
And then the same Comission wonders why anti-EU sentiment is growing.
We’re slowly but steadily getting to a point where the EU has all the dystopian surveillance and control measures in place as China does, except without any of the benefits that come with them.
Replying to @DupaCycki@lemmy.world
So, effectively where the US already was when conditions were ripe for a certain despot to rally his base and seize power