France is moving to classify X as a pornographic website, a designation that would place it under the country’s mandatory age verification and digital ID laws.
This step, if finalized, would force the company to either implement robust age-gating mechanisms or restrict access to adult content altogether to avoid being cut off from younger users.
It would also mean that users have to show ID to access the platform, introducing major implications for privacy and free speech.
Why is every country dreaming of becoming south korea?
Kids would be better off on pornhub
Nazi propaganda: I sleep
Porn: Real shit
Tbh adult content is probrally the most respectable content you can find on X, especially compared to the constant Nazis and genocide apologetic liberals.
Liberals are genocide apologists?!
Never expected the place known for nude beaches and a president who married a pedophile to be one that implemented this kind of block.
Sad to see France is heading this direction, Canada was very close to heading this route too, thankfully it didn’t end up that way.
Everyone in France already subbed to VPNs for the pornhub block. This won’t even result in a traffic hiccup.
The site formerly known as Twitter would be more respectable these days if it were a porn site.
It’s not? Thought that’s the main use.
I like my porn to be less faschy and more flashy.
Yeah alright, but dem uniformed forms though…
The titter side was better
Twitter is shit, but France went really nuts.
Fucking ridiculous. Might as well do the same for sites like Tumblr, Reddit, even Youtube. “Protecting” kids comes at the expense of everyone else.
Won’t somebody think of the children [who should be raised by their parents, not governments]?
Its not about protecting kids, even if they say it is.
Oh, of course not. Just the given excuse. Honestly, people being so obsessed with minors jacking off is creepy. Who cares? If it’s a problem, then the parents can deal with it.
As a parent, I’m with you.
Religious nut are offended because they felt funny.
I felt a tingle in my dingle and now I’m going to make it everyone’s problem. - pretty much every religious leader
Which is funny because it pairs so well with the agenda of the corporatists and fascists, who could give a shit about religion but would love to track you online even more.
I’m certain that religion is responsible, and has been, for nearly every conflict in the last 1500 or so years. Yet, it seems to be entirely ignored by leftists (conservatives don’t have a reasonable view) as the cause of problems.
I think you’re confusing Liberals with Leftists.
I can’t remember a single self-proclaimed “Communist” nation that wasn’t anti-Religion.
Tolerance of Religion comes from the Liberal political beliefs side (which many people who are also Leftwingers have) and the modern “Liberals” in places like the US and UK (which are Rightwingers) are the ones who stretch it well beyond tolerance to the point of deeming criticism of some Religions (but not others) as a bad thing, or in other words, activelly supporting certain religions and their values (which as you pointed out, tend to be Corporatist and Fascist).
In summary, Authoritarian Leftwingers tend to be anti-Religion, Liberal Leftwingers tend to tolerate Religion and “Liberal” Rightwingers at the very least defend and sometimes even support certain specific Religions (as far as I can tell, the ones supported by their local money and power elites) but not others.
I can’t remember a single self-proclaimed “Communist” nation that wasn’t anti-Religion.
Besides historical trends and stuff (like how push to literacy denied religion it’s power), ‘communist’ governments directly competed with religion on the ideological table.
Soviet people were given an afterlife-like myth of finally building the communism via socialism, for example, Lenin was a handy translation of Jesus, and so on. All pieces felt into existing sockets, that’s how it worked out. It’s a win for however found that conversion of ideas for the masses.
(I tolerate faith, I hate religious institutions)
Honestly, it seems that Christianity is the only one mentioned as a problem, normally with a big disclaimer about “not all Christians”. Judaism is only really mentioned explicitly with “Judeo-Christian values”, as if the founding fathers were staunch members of either religion, which most were not. Authoritarian governments like controlling religion because it can control the people. Leftists (at least the ones I’ve seen) are mostly ignoring the issues of other religions. Conservative critiques of religion tend to just be actual racism, without criticising the actual problems present.
Leave it to the Macron government to do the right thing in the wrongest way possible.
I don’t really tend to keep track of foreign politics most of the time, but I’m pretty sure that Macron was groomed by his wife, which is now abusing him, and that Europe isn’t really getting better in general.
Now this is quotable!
twitter is an adult site though. i’d argue reddit is too youtube no since they do not allow explicit content
Everyone should have content filtering tools. I use Adguard services for filtering my own internet (adult, Reddit, YouTube, etc.). Surely, implimenting something similar at an OS or router level would have saved us decades of pointless bickering and provided us with an actual consumer benefit?
I don’t know if they still do it, but some mobile internet providers in the UK would filter things out unless you sent them your ID to unblock it.
Not sure it’s a great solution, but better than having to provide your ID to every random website out there.
Having to provide Id to any entity to access internet pages is dystopian and fucked up, sounds just like the UK.
Not that the USA is better at all
I think it’s mostly because it’s a SIM only thing and anyone can send off for one.
If you want it, that should be your right, but the government shouldn’t be forcing it on you.
That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying governments could force MS, Google, Apple to implement content filtering tools at the OS level, that give users the choice to set up filtering however they want for themselves or their kids.
This already largely works, at least on Android. I use RethinkDNS, which allows me to filter stuff already, and comes included with a host of DNS filters out of the box.
I don’t need MS, Google, or Apple to do it, just make it possible to install a third-party app that does it. That way I get to decide which tool I think works best instead of whatever the OEM decides.
what does that have to do with France forcing you to show your ID to use Twitter?
Those against website age verification argue that content blocking should happen at the OS level. For example, a parent could enable the built-in “child mode” on their child’s smartphone or computer. As I understand it, that would be more effective, graceful, cheaper, free speechy, and private. To a degree, tech savvy parents (and people who block ads and other content) already do similar things with third party tools - i.e. it’s feasible.
Sure if that was all they had in mind. This is also about collecting info and controlling what people can do, the content is just an excuse as a means of doing so.
Well, yes, there is that.
Why is anyone still on X anyway? Its AI bot trash.
Because artists are still there.
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False validation is a hell of a drug.
Makes sense 100%
Annoyingly many artists still use it, and for some it’s their only platform they post at any regularity, except for paid posts on patreon. I haven’t used Twitter as a social media site for almost a decade now, but my “twitter only” art list still has 18 people on it.
This is kind of hilarious. Right wingers seek to limit privacy by forcing age verification online, and then the right wing social network gets caught in the same net. It hurt itself in it’s confusion.
Elon probably punching air rn
That’s the only thing he’s ever punched.
If it’s just Elon who suffers I’m fine.
