Remember when companies like Google and Facebook got slapped with fines and fees from various countries for sumerizing news in “social feeds” on their sites.

News outlets were complaining about loss of ad revenue as a result of reduced traffic to their website directly, as consumers could get news summarized on their social feed.

Facebook even in some cases blocked news links in some countries from not showing on users feeds as a result, so as to be compliant with local passed laws and not pay fees or fines.

Then news outlets complained that no one was going to their sites because links were not being shared on social platforms. The very thing they complained about in the first place.

Guess AI summarising news is somehow completely different and a completely new challenge that politicans somehow don’t understand.

I think it may be time for the public to create their own P2P mesh networks that are “disconnected” from the main internet.

Also as a self-hoster I wonder how this would effect smaller individuals that run their own blogs and websites. How would a small random person be forced to put up a ID verification on their website that they might be running on a small POS laptop?

This ID is already provided with a credit card number TBH and any other info needed to setup a ISP or cellphone plan, but there are ways around that.

One is purchasing a month to month phone plan with cash for example. Or finding open wifi networks and routing all traffic through a personal VPN or a commercial VPN.

It would be pretty easy to subvert tbh for anyone tech savvy enough.

It’s like bypassing windows 11 “cloud account” and using a local account instead. If a person cares enough to ask why someone needs a cloud account to access their own PC.

For ID verification a personal VPS purchased in another country and routing all your home network traffic through that would bypass any ID checks. Also offline copies of websites and downloading content through P2P or usnet would be visible in obscuring your “viewing history”.

And porn can still be purchased or shared on bootleg DVDs.

Why not provide parents with routers instead that have easy to set parental controls?

This feels very similar to someone coming into my home and telling me how to raise my own kids.

The government could also create its own curated list of websites that are considered “kid friendly” at different age gaps and have it made available within a routers parental control menu to be turned on/for deviced marked as being used by ones child on your home network.

Also at the same time it’s not about protecting children, it’s about controlling the general population with the guise of protecting the children. It’s like getting searched when walking in and walking out of a store.

I suppose dvd order porn will become a thing once again.

Or alternatively we can start sharing bootleg USBs with our friends.

The Internet had begun its enshitification stage, as governments look to control and lock down access to the internet people will find new and creative ways to bypass these barriers. For one, things like Tor or going back to DVDs and physical media might get more main stream.