Early 2020s: China enacts laws severely crippling the internet for people unless they show IDJul 2025 (Online Safety Act): UK enacts laws neutering the internet for people unless they show ID; remains in effect despite initial outcryDec 2025 (Online Safety Amendment): Australia enacts laws neutering the internet for people unless they show ID; likely to remain in effect despite current outcryApr 2026? (KOSA, made it into the House recently): US enacts laws neutering the internet for people unless they show their IDsEU has similar shit on the table iirc, they're the fucking EU they love regulationThis will get worse, and this won't go away, at least not in the way you want it to - it'll be an impossibly difficult sell because "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" Security theater is notoriously difficult to reverse, just compare flying pre and post 9/11. This'll probably be more of the same. Again, UK already had a petition, the gov there just laughed in everyone's faces. Only way any of this is really "going away" is, like, the internet itself going extinct.Not just this btw, also got countries banning Chinese social media (which in many cases can ironically be less restrictive), Android banning sideloading, etc.This won't get kids playing outside again. They'll just watch only the government-OK kid-friendly TV, YouTube Shorts, and AI. Sheeple will still use a heavily policed internet and talk to Amanda the AI HR Lady because "brain need dopamine". China's still full of internet addicts despite having long had one of the world's most censored internets.VPNs? They'll gradually wane in effectiveness once those governments go after 'em, and we're probably gonna see sites like YouTube or whatever outright ban VPN usage (similar to how they've been outright banning adblocker usage). Again China's a step ahead of the curve. Another incentive they got is to keep people with 1st-world country salaries from VPN-ing over to India etc. to get discounted prices.
>>107534272>Australiasocial media =/= the internet. 4chan and places that don't require account aren't affected. that said, even roblox and discord aren't affected (lol)
>>107534998>nooo they only neutered *part* of the internetYeah just like they only took """some""" of your guns. You've shown you're willing to cede territory, next time there's an event like covid you'll go back to being house slaves, except this time with CCP style internet
They should've implemented this on ISP level, then it wouldn't be so stupid.
>>107534272> the internet> look inside> actualy it's just webshit and only a fraction of sites at that.lol, they can't put ID verification at the IP protocol layer, even if they try.best they could do is ask for id to connect to the internet, but even then, the IP layer would stay the same and thus they couldn't have full control of what's happening.
>>107535058that's not doable with current technology, at most you block normies.you could always go on a public wifi, copy the mac of another user in the network and there you go.
>>107535047The boomers in gov have no idea how technology works. During the hearings for the bill in Australia someone asked a governor about 4chan and he went "what's 4chan?"they still don't have a clue after 22 years kek
>>107535077lol> mostly the boomers want to ban tech> they don't understand how it workswe are safe for a while
>"china is... le bad!">do everything in their power to become like chinaI will never understand anglotards
>>107534272But we are in democracy and still have the rule of law, okay?Big corpos and governments intertwining laws and power over the people is totally not fascism, right?Here in France we deploy ATF to crackdown farmers protests while we do nothing about drug trafficking. Some minorities are absolutely free to do whatever they want with few repercussions or accountability.Which leads to CBDC rollouts to supposedly tackle money laundering and tax evasion by phaisng out physical cash, but crypto and barter trade are still here.
>>107535077It's not just boomers, it's zoomers. They are obsessed with controlling things and imposing "safety" on everyone else. You have these feminist zoom zooms making think of the children arguments now.
>>107535249its funny how low iq subhuman chuds will pretend its "the left" trying to censor everything when you lose your minds over a nipple, while "ironically" masturbating to tranny porn as a "straight white male".God you are so pathetic just kys
>>107534272You're completely and entirely right. This is the course. But what can we do to stop it? Even during COVID, we couldn't mobilize to prevent the shit they pulled. And that had real life in your face consequences, not just in digital world as many people will tell themselves to deprioritize it.
>>107534272yes. we are unironically in the last decade of the free internet as we know itinternet ID laws will start with adult content then slowly creep into the rest of the net and eventually authentication modules will be legally required to be built into all computers. Accessing the internet without such authentication will land you years, if not decades, in prison.
>>107535062they can put it on every website which eventually normalizes itat that point they can require all computer hardware to have built in ID authentication at startup, and the people will see it as a "feature" because they no longer have to login manually to every website.
>>107535274It's BOTH SIDES. The right wing TERF's are the ones trying to ban porn, you retarded bot.
>>107534272Canada and india seem ok to me
>>107534998Are you really sure about that?
>>107534998>Australia>social media =/= the internet
>>107536714Canada is partnering with the EU on Digital ID
Xi invading Taiwan in about 18 months. Will either result in WW3 or total American capitulation.Either way the elites are spooked.
>>107534998australia had cancer internet i 2005 i cant imagine how much worse it is now
>>107534272US has been trying to do this for longer the first US state to implement an online age verification law requiring government-issued ID was Louisiana in 2023
Reading about this makes me want to log off forever. That being said, I want to stay in touch with online friends. Genuinely what can one do? Should I start learning about open source systems and anonymous remailers?
>>107537148Oh and US's KOSA was introduced in 2022. Currently about 25 states have Online ID verification laws and they're still trying to pass a bunch more of age verification laws, KOSA, SCREEN, App Store Accountability Act etc and they also want to repeal Section 230
