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LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"

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Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"

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Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, according to the head of the Swiss privacy firm
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    Isn’t this the company that shutdown someone’s email on behalf of a large organization?

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      It wasn’t Proton that shut down the email of the genocide prosecutor. It was Microsoft:

      Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.

      Taken from:

      https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

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        Are you positive they aren’t talking about something else? Because Proton complies with 89% of the thousands of censorship/data requests they get every year.

        https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/proton-mail-is-not-for-anonymity/

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          I got rickrolled

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      The guy in the picture also endorsed the political party most associated with age verification laws.

      But this is Lemmy, where we don’t criticize Proton!

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        Age verification is truly a bipartisan effort. California, Colorado, Illinois, New York… none of these are GOP strongholds. The federal bill was introduced by one Republican and one Democrat.

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        Well it was Mark Zuckerburg who’s made the big push for it… You know, offload responsibility from his platform being addicting and all… Plus, both sides are equally corrupt, so really it’s time to move to something new. Forward, Green, Reform, Libertarian, etc.

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          Reform isn’t anything new. It’s just old-fashioned bigoted fascism. Tory++.

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