you can find me on the other site bye nerds

my bsky @ is mary34ishere

[you can find me on the other site bye nerds @justsomeutaune1]

My cover of Jackpot Sad Girl, a Vocaloid song made by a vocaloid producer who even provided an off vocal free of charge specifically for covers, is partially blocked by Universal Music Group for using a virtual singer like the original. this is ridiculous.

[Mar Smaae @marsmaae]

A mi querida comunidad de vocalsynths//To my dear vocalsynth community:
#vocaloid #synthesizerV

[Tim Murphy🇺🇸♏️ @TimMurphyUSA]

For the sake of our freedoms, tell your senators to say NO to KOSA!

[Megg @MeggSPaint]

I'm just being honest.

[ToaruGoji/AM (とあるゴジ) 🔞 神裂火織の夫 @TitanEsper54]

US citizens,

It is the middle of the week. You know what that means? You call your senators to reject KOSA when it reaches the senate.

Happy dialing: [phone]

[EromancerSFW @EromancerSFW]

Let's not downplay it. ID and biometric checks are coming for everyone, and not just in Europe. Fight it while you can.

[Mhuyo @Mhuyo]

first time gambling

[E @eastormy]

The fact that people are ignoring the literal death/self harm threats she got and the only thing they’re gleaning from this video is “she still has bad video game opinions so she deserves everything that has happened because I don’t like her”

[桜プリン🐾書籍発売中！ @kuiruri]

タップしてみてね🌸

[/nʌtælˠjə/ 🪬 @NataliaShmueli]

Regarding my events with Maghni AI

https://t.co/jGaCuGWQYM

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites.

🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements.

Today von der Leyen said:

"This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children".

💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984.

🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online".

💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different.

🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done".

💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof".

🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source".

💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant.

🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents".

💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust.

🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence"

💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do.

💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive.

💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child.

💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive.

🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed"

💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price.

🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof"

💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution".

💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity.

🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it".

💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely.

💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor.

💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law.

💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals.

💡Where this ends

🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever".

George Orwell, 1984.

[Au-Plau-Se @AuPlau]

Hey guys I made this post which explains why the KOSA Kids Online Safety Act is not good at protecting kids and how dangerous age verification is. Cybercriminals and Terrorists could use this info from the IDs of many people to take advantage. https://t.co/tWAFGgP65w

[boycott collective shout @boycottshout]

If you are from the US, remember to call your senators(202-224-3121) and tell them to stop KOSA. As it clearly infringes the US constitution. No kids are being protected, this is an excuse to remove more and more of yours rights and to spy on you.

[Casus Belli @casusbellii]

This just implies forcing millions of europeans to show their ID to sign up which pose two major issues :

1/ You are now identified (with many others datas collected by EU regarding ur financial / online activities) by EU

2/ If any cyberattack breaks the system holding your datas, your IDs are now in the nature (and it happens everyday)

And of course, it's all neatly wrapped up in the argument about protecting minors

[Hotcheesecakes (Clippy) @BLkhoih96132]

if the date is finalized or not for the 29th. Call your senators and tell em to vote no on the KIDS act and KOSA

[f4mi ‼️ @f4micom]

done, enjoy

there is a button to download the whole website and rehost it in case for any reason it goes dark

[f4mi ‼️ @f4micom]

so, let's not panic, the situation SUCKS but it is a restoration of the previous law (yes, we already had this in place, it sucks)

moving forward, you gotta assume pretty much every platform that is not explicitly and publicly providing end to end encryption to chats will scan through your messages as it did for 4 years up until not too long ago

i will try to get some info on what can be done as citizens to push back since there are some tools and we are not completely powerless

for now, as you always should have been doing, keep all of your sensitive data and just private communications on encrypted channels

i will be probably making a video on this stuff soon especially considering the more insidious and fucked up chatcontrol 2.0 (the one where they wanted a backdoor for e2e) might be coming and i'd rather everyone be prepared for that with a huge middle finger and a fuck you to the EU commission in case it passes

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

Chat Control has been passed, even though a majority voted against.

This is because @EPPGroup used an urgent procedure that would require an absolute majority to reject it.

What a disgusting way of politics. Europeans will remember, and vote the EPP out in the next election.