• matlag@sh.itjust.works
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      Well, I wish you could just say that, but “the French” is not a consistent body of people.

      While we have this team working on a sovereign suite, Macron is rushing a law to ban <15 years old on social network, so… they will soon require all users to provide an ID. It will have to go through a “trusted third-party”, not directly to Meta/Twitter/etc., and not to the gov directly, but we all know how much corporates and governments have been trustworthy historically. And once the data is collected, you’re just one law away from all abuse.

      Needless to say that the teen will rush to VPN, so they also mentioned a potential ban on VPNs! (France would then join the short-list of great democratic VPN-banning countries: North Korea, China, Iran…)

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      9 hours ago

      Can we be like the Beneluxians or Scandinavians instead?

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        Why? Benelux and Scandinavia are completely dependent software from technofascist pedophiles and some even let these technofascists store the sensitive data of their own citizens in the US.