As a regular of the old-internet, including hellsites such as VampireFreaks dot com, I promise it takes more than that for the government to care. VF was the site of two? vampire-inspired teenage murderers and a few other horrors, including one of the admins defending the presence of a convicted pedophile who was banned from using Facebook.
As for why, my assumption is that you cannot fine an entity which is barely profitable. I mean you can but you won’t get anything, so they’re unlikely to bother.
I don’t think that will save it. I’m barely profitable and cops still give me tickets. Times are changing. Governments are coming down hard on the Internet. OSA in the UK forced Urban Dead to shut down. I would have to think admins running instances are feeling a little nervous.
I wish. If that were true, we wouldn’t have nasty-ass fire-safe cigarettes and they wouldn’t cost 15 bucks a pack. I could buy Macanudo cigars for a dollar. I could see Pornhub in Texas without having to sign up for an account. If they think it will protect the children, they’ll wipe Amazon clean off the map.
Yeah fair points on the cigarettes / cigars, I guess that was so long ago that I just take it for granted. Maybe social media will be the same… as for Pornhub, I think that is more about Christofascism than any actual concern for protecting children, and if social media is banned, it will be because TikTok especially (but social media in general) shattered the pro-Israel narrative promoted by the US government. They need to control the narrative, and the internet makes that hard. Free speech may make it too hard to take that away from adults, but they have an excuse if they make it about the safety of children.
Even with those good points on your end though, I’d still be surprised if anything actually happens to meaningfully restrict social media companies.
As a regular of the old-internet, including hellsites such as VampireFreaks dot com, I promise it takes more than that for the government to care. VF was the site of two? vampire-inspired teenage murderers and a few other horrors, including one of the admins defending the presence of a convicted pedophile who was banned from using Facebook.
As for why, my assumption is that you cannot fine an entity which is barely profitable. I mean you can but you won’t get anything, so they’re unlikely to bother.
I don’t think that will save it. I’m barely profitable and cops still give me tickets. Times are changing. Governments are coming down hard on the Internet. OSA in the UK forced Urban Dead to shut down. I would have to think admins running instances are feeling a little nervous.
UK is a very different story
For now. But the US is planning to pass it’s own version of OSA.
I doubt it. Nothing contrary to the interests of corporations ever happens in America.
I wish. If that were true, we wouldn’t have nasty-ass fire-safe cigarettes and they wouldn’t cost 15 bucks a pack. I could buy Macanudo cigars for a dollar. I could see Pornhub in Texas without having to sign up for an account. If they think it will protect the children, they’ll wipe Amazon clean off the map.
Yeah fair points on the cigarettes / cigars, I guess that was so long ago that I just take it for granted. Maybe social media will be the same… as for Pornhub, I think that is more about Christofascism than any actual concern for protecting children, and if social media is banned, it will be because TikTok especially (but social media in general) shattered the pro-Israel narrative promoted by the US government. They need to control the narrative, and the internet makes that hard. Free speech may make it too hard to take that away from adults, but they have an excuse if they make it about the safety of children.
Even with those good points on your end though, I’d still be surprised if anything actually happens to meaningfully restrict social media companies.