EFF warns new online age‑verification mandates risk expanding surveillance, censorship, and exclusion for adults and kids alike. 🪪
They’ve launched a resource hub to track these laws and defend privacy, anonymity, and free expression online. 📚

@eff

🔗 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/effecting-change-human-cost-online-age-verification

#TechNews #Privacy #Surveillance #Censorship #Data #Rights #Security #AI #Policy #Regulation #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #Internet #USA #EFF #AgeVerification #Exclusion #Inclusion

This story is the first in the Atavist's new Revived series, which aims to breathe life into old stories: https://magazine.atavist.com/introducing-revived?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Journalism #Nonfiction #Writing #Internet #WaybackMachine #LinkRot

More concerns over content manipulation and online safety. CNBC reports: “Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot blamed “lapses in safeguards” for the recent posting of artificial intelligence-generated sexualized pictures of children in response to user questions.” Read more, including Musk’s response:

https://flip.it/GLVjn4

#Tech #AI #Grok #Technology #Internet #ArtificialIntelligence

With over 100 VPNs available on the internet, it can be difficult to pick one that’s best for you. One tip: It’s a bad thing if you find yourself constantly thinking about your VPN while using it. @Engadget has more pointers:

https://flip.it/-BQRYF

#Tech #VPN #Internet #CyberSecurity #Technology

Hey.. you.. yeah you!

What do you want to see done with "The Internet"? What do you wanna do with it or accomplish?

#internet

@glyph @aeva

Similarly the music industry will never go back to a time when a record contract was the only path to success. That doesn't mean that the record industry no longer exists. It just means that the internet, email, etc. give musicians options.

#computing #internet #music #promotion

Millions of under-16s in Australia just woke up to no social media as the country's world-first ban came into effect. @CNN breaks down how it will all work.

https://flip.it/h5u3OX

#Technology #Tech #SocialMedia #Internet #Parenting #Australia

@eff Lawmakers who draft/enact Age Verification and similar policies insist that said policies are about "child safety." But anyone with even rudimentary critical thinking skills knows that is not true

The true purposes of these policies are as follows:
-Make organizing protests virtually impossible
-Erase marginalized groups from the internet
-Make accessing vital resources much harder, if not impossible
-Erase anything that dilutes the state's ability to brainwash the populace (Palestine, Environmentalism, LGBTQ+ rights, Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Immigration, etc.).
-To "return" sexuality and expression in general back to their "proper" place in society and make adult art, sex work, etc. more precarious, more exploitable, and with less recourse to any law or institution
-General petty spite towards people who don't treat lawmakers like deities

Overall, de-anonymization won't make kids safe and it won't result in a more polite internet (just look at Facebook and LinkedIn).

Anyone who advocates for these policies shouldn't complain when their ID/Credit Card/Biometric data is inevitably leaked to the dark web and they have to deal with ID theft and such for years/decades.

They also shouldn't complain when they can't access a vital service and/or get jailed because either 1: The government didn't approve of what they said or 2: The extremely error prone AI that scans their messages thought the innocuous pic of their kids/pets was CSAM/Bestiality.

#Privacy #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Internet #SocialMedia #US #UnitedStates #EU #Canada #Australia

@eff ...and here is a list of the most diverse offers to show the (non-existent) privacy on the web:
https://chaos.social/@kubikpixel/115677010880628487

#web #unique #privacy #webprivacy #internet #tracking

Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".

#internet #TheWeb #OTD #OnThisDay #history

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A photograph of a Daily Mail newspaper article from December 5, 2000, with the headline "Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'". The article includes a cropped photo showing hands typing on a keyboard in front of a computer displaying a website.

#computer #internet #vpn #sicherheit

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/115615537704157322

let me tell you, Wisconsin's #vpn ban is simply is nothing but #wordsalad because it doesn't work!
first off, the federal government literally recommends VPNs. in fact, if you see this document and this document you can see that the government literally recommends VPNs.
so this would go against the federal governments own recommendations.
second off, this violates the first and forth amendments.
o, and this doesn't work at all.
in fact, in order for this to even work, they would have to implement the #great #firewall of #china architecture, where they'd have to censor everything coming from the internet, or they'd have to do something similar to #kwangmyong which, again, would violate the first and forth amendments.
and knowing #internet providers like #comcast / #xfinity , #spectrum / #charter, ISPs are too lazy to implement deep packet inspection themselves, meaning they'd very likely just block VPN sites at the DNS level, which, keep in mind, doesn't work.
#epicfail #cybersecurity #censorship

Cloudflare outage

Article on DailyKos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/18/2354380/-Cloudfare-outage

#internet #cloudflare #chatgpt

A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, “League of Legends,” to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday.

@AssociatedPress reports on the Cloudflare outage: https://flip.it/7gdHLg

#Cloudflare #Tech #Technology #Internet

@pluralistic urges Europe and Canada to stop catering to U.S. tech giants.

@PCMag reports on Cory Doctorow's "plan for a better internet: legalize jailbreaking, modding, and tinkering."

https://flip.it/c2Gyq_

#Tech #Technology #Internet #Enshittification #BigTech

Whether you're a human being or an immortal sinister colony organism that uses humans as gut flora (e.g. a corporation)

#internet -wirtschaft #corporations #CoryDoctorow

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115525357862176966

@screwlisp good question...

I tend to timecode, but in case you're stuck on #Iridium for #Internet access:

• I did coincide with @tantacrul's criticism that professional tools need to be beginner-friendly and accessible, which #finale isn't!

On this day, 56 years ago:

"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969

#arpanet #internet #history #OTD #OnThisDay #technology

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A black commemorative plaque with gold frame, inscribed with gold letters. It reads: "At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute. Based on packet switching and dynamic resource allocation, the sharing of information digitally from this first node of ARPANET launched the Internet revolution."

„Immer häufiger sieht man sie: Bilder und Videos von Influencern, die Essen, Kleidung oder Spenden an Obdachlose verteilen. Was vermeintlich gut gemeint ist, nützt in erster Linie dem Content-Creator und kann problematische Nebenwirkungen haben. Denn oft filmen sie die Gesichter der Obdachlosen, ohne diese zu fragen. Mit ihrer Kampagne „Mein Gesicht gehört mir!“ geht die Bahnhofsmission #Essen auf Instagram und auf der Straße gegen das Phänomen vor.“

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/ungewollt-im-internet-neue-kampagne-gegen-instrumentalisierung-von-obdachlosen-durch-influencer/

#Datenschutz #Daten #Privacy #Netzpolitik #Antireport

wenn die us-amerikaner verkünden:

all data of us-american enterprises are belong to us no matter where they are stored

da können merz und co fest beide augen verschließen, wegerklären können sie das problem nicht:

Das Ereignis war nicht weniger als ein Vorgeschmack auf das Unheil, das Europa droht, wenn Dienste von AWS, Azure oder Google noch mehr zum politischen Spielball verkommen als ohnehin schon. Kann ein Land wie das Vereinigte Königreich seine Steuern nicht mehr erheben, weil zentrale IT nicht mehr funktioniert, ist das für das Land nicht weniger als eine Gefährdung seiner Existenz.

#computer #internet #aws #autonomie #usa

#^Kommentar zum Totalausfall bei AWS: Nichts gelernt in den letzten 30 Jahren

Nach dem jüngsten AWS-Ausfall muss angeblich die Multi-Cloud her. Aber das führt in die Irre – die US-Abhängigkeit ist das Kernproblem, meint Martin Loschwitz.

Thinking of jumping to #TMobile Home Internet from #Spectrum. My T-Mo iPhone gets gigabit download speeds on 5G now... but the home internet speeds are listed as quite a bit slower. Are home internet speeds throttled or is T-Mobile just being conservative in what they promise?

#Internet #CellularInternet #5G

Half of the internet shuts down while the Fediverse is unaffected. You love to see it.

#fediverse #aws #internet #decentralization

in particular i'd like to see how they will cope with the lack of "apps" for their system.

#smartphone #internet #android #google #SailfishOs #jolla

nixCraft 🐧 wrote the following post Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:05:03 +0200

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced "Librephone," a new project aimed at achieving complete mobile phone freedom for users from Google and Apple. The initiative will work to reverse engineer obstacles until its goal of a fully free mobile phone environment is realized. Can they be successful where industry leaders like Ubuntu failed previously?

https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project

#linux #opensource

@quincy @gimulnautti @Em0nM4stodon @torproject let's put it this way:

I'm not gonna rely on the gracefulness of the state to allow my existance and presence.

• Whilst we need to protect the existing spaces we build, use and take part in, we've to also make shure these spaces can't be eradicaded and that they'll remain impervious to #cyberfascism.

Plus we'll also enable folks who don't have a "free" #Internet to parttake - regardless if they're from #Russia, "P.R." #China or #iran...

• I think we are in sync here...

I just lost my job to #AI 😕

The responsibilities included reading the entire #internet and hallucinating.

Wusste nicht dass @sixtus was auf @arte gemacht hat...

• Ich glaub' nicht, dass das "#Internet" an sich "stibt" sondern dass Leute sich entscheiden weg von der #Kommerzialisierung und #Enshittification mit #AIslop per #AntisocialMedia und mehr zum #Fediverse und/oder #SelfHosting auf #Tor gehen werden weil @torproject #Scraping als #DDoS passiv bekämpft!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGmVehWBdHI