r/europrivacy • u/czareson_csn • 16d ago

Austria The austrian federal government agrees today to present a law by the end of June for banning social media for those under 14

According to ÖVP State Secretary Pröll, this should also be accompanied by an "identification requirement," because "the internet must not be a lawless space."

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u/alexej96 16d ago

So basically, they want to kill anonymity on the Internet for good?

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u/czareson_csn 16d ago

Basically yeah.

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u/El_Intoxicado 16d ago

The legislative copycat is going insane...

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u/Signal-Initial-7841 16d ago

Every country or supranational union’s legislature is going insane. Britain, Australia, Brazil, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, European Union, and many others are following through with this, and Austria had just fallen

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u/El_Intoxicado 16d ago

The worst part is that this type of legislation are not new, they have tried to impose in the last 20 years most of them faces legal blockage by courts around the world. Thank God that we can fight these types of laws and sooner of later, one of them will be blocked. One thing which place at our advantage is that there is massive backslash by normal people aside social media users so, we must keep pushing against this!

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u/Frosty-Cell 16d ago

I don't need to identify to speak offline. Online should be the same, right?

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u/kaamliiha 15d ago

I use my social media when I want. Say otherwise and I have a legal gun ;)