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How would you confirm though? So far I'm seeing a lot of rumors but no one seems have produced any actual legislation that I can see anyway.

Umm, no. The start of this thread just a link to joinpeertube and the top comment has no source or link of any kind.

So I gather you don't have any source either then.

Any source for that? A few people have claimed legislation to be a reason but I'm not aware of any such rules.

Actually I'd be very, very surprised if this was even in the jurisdiction of the EU.

It's not required in my country and I get the checks. This has nothing to do with legislation.

I doubt it has anything to do with verifying age though. More likely they know people are hesitant to sign up and pay for youtube, but if they can get your credit card in other ways, then later it easier to get you to pay for something because then you just have to press "ok" since your details are already entered.

Plus this gives them your identity, which is relevant because their business model nowadays is based around tracking people.

Are you sure? Because I seem to be bombarded with pro EU propaganda from every angle I can think of. None of it ever has any sources of course.

For some reason we never see any polls, just opinion pieces, but I'd wager that

(1) people think cooperation is a good idea

(2) and they also want to keep their own countries and identities

Once we start moving towards a single country, the inevitable question becomes, which rules and values should people follow? Which country gets to assert its way of life on the others? Or perhaps the virtual state known as the "EU" should assert its own values (whatever they may be)?

Now imagine expanding the EU to Turkey. Can we change their legislation to be more liberal? Or should the EU countries follow the hard line authoritarian islam that Erdogan pushes? No one is willing to change. And no one has to as long as the EU stays as a form of cooperation between nations.

If the EU pushes towards a single country, power struggles over values will follow.

Read the thread from the beginning...

They're trying to create a single country out of the EU and this is a step in that direction.

Everyone is in such a hurry to point out where others are wrong. You don't need this, don't do that... ("look how smart I am").

Well what on earth else do people think intelligence services do?

It's like... BREAKING NEWS: McDonald's found selling burgers!

In big tech’s dystopia, political propaganda trying to pass for journalism earns millions while real research and reporting is barely funded.

Those someones nearly always seem to be a small group of angry white people on twitter and rarely the groups supposedly offended.

>I wish more people understood that the goal of Stack Overflow is not "answer my question" but "let's collaboratively build an artifact that will benefit future coders". Perhaps SO could be doing more to educate people about this. -Jeff Atwood

But the way to built that knowledge base is by answering peoples questions because the questions people ask indicate what is relevant to answer.

Sometimes the toxicity seems like a feature of twitter. Everything is built in order to facilitate those mobs supported by Twitter.

People get upset over others having more them they have, but rather than overtly stating they hate those who have more, it sounds far more appealing to say the attack on those who have is really a nice thing they're doing for the poor. But if you look at the actual actions and rhetoric, it's more about hating the rich than concern for the poor.

The costs are the same for companies. Large companies like rich individuals do OK, small companies and poor people go under. It's pay to win.

> Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act

Did I mention Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act?

Well no I didn't.

The concept is broader than any law. And you should not be getting legal advice from Mike at techdirt anyway.

Perhaps it appears that way to you because you follow American sources?

Are there any privacy aspects to this? Does Google track everything that is going on?

Do you have control over your device or can Google release updates and do whatever they want with it?

Depends what they want to claim to be. If they write, or if they orchestrate an ongoing discussion so that they de facto decide what is said, then they are "speaking".

They can do that, but not while claiming to be a platform.

Platform or publisher.

You're pretending to misunderstand and you know it.

Enough people believe exactly that to make such statements problematic. If we expand this beyond economist, there are literally people who believe in magic. If we expand magic to include religion, a vast majority believe in magic. Journalism should inform.

It's condescending because I look down on these types of articles.

Journalists should stick to the truth.

I realize you are able to interpret what is says so that "free" means "using public transport will incur no [additional] cost, but people shouldn't have to do that.

It's not free. There's a reason why France has such high taxes. They changed from a model where people pay per fare to everyone has to pay and it's done via taxation.

This model may make a lot of sense, but I'd hope we could skip the kinder garden level headlines.

Good! The west doesn't need to get any closer to being a corporatocracy.

Because large companies have a huge amount of influence over the political parties.

> If you don't like, go do something else.

Many people don't have many options and companies abuse the shit out of that because people don't want to be homeless, get kicked out of the country or dead when they can't pay medical bills. Etc. Thus the need for legislation. And the lack of such legislation partially explains fabulous areas like skid row.

TK?

...surprise visit?

...unexpected company?