🇪🇺 European Citizen’s Initiative against ID age verification online
Just yesterday, Stop Killing the Internet, from the people at @StopKillingGames, launched an ECI against ID age verification! This is great but it needs 1 million signatures !
So, if you live in #europe, please sign it! If you don’t, or even if you do, still share it around so more people know about it and can sign it!
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home
Reaching the signature threshold will not mean that ID age verification will immediately become illegal, but the subject will be brought to the @EUCommission and they’ll have to do SOMETHING about it. This is already a huge step in the right direction!
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@helloyanis@furries.club @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @StopKillingGames@mastodon.social @privacy@lemmy.world Not saying that people should not sign this petition, but in addition to what everyone is saying about it not being against age verification, I want to add a reminder that when they were protesting about “killing games”, some big fishes from the videogame industry went to talk privately with some of the members of the parliament and the very next day the initiative got rejected. It is unknown what they talked in the background but we can only assume what it was 💵
Signing petitions and protesting is a waste of time and people needs to realize this, its time to move on to more active means of being heard. Just a suggestion, nothing else.
RE: https://furries.club/users/helloyanis/statuses/117212986487046806
@enigmatico @EUCommission @StopKillingGames @privacy The SKG team is still ongoing in their actions and even if the eu commission did pretty much nothing, this brought up the subject to the eu parliament which is in support of it and is looking to integrate it in the digital fairness act. So, no it wasn’t all useless!
@helloyanis@furries.club @StopKillingGames@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @privacy@lemmy.world Yeah. People got heard. As if they didnt know already. Nothing is going to be done about it, everyone knows it. They’ll pay more money to shut their mouths and move on, business as usual. Believing in politicians and institutions actually doing their job is like believing in fairy tales. Its not going to happen. If people wants something done, people will have to get it by themselves. Thats how its been for decades ever since our democratic institutions got corrupted by greedy assholes.
@enigmatico @StopKillingGames @EUCommission @privacy I think personally it’s still best to push everywhere you can.
I mean, I’m telling people to sign this even though I made an extension to bypass the age checks on some sites, if it fails then too bad but we can’t be sure if we don’t try everything.