It's not going to be the end of free speech. It's only going to affect the kids who would be watching YouTube.

I'm not referring to just YouTube's rules specifically. Just to use YouTube as a means to educate on current world wide free speech issues.

Ok. I understand.

Np, I'll update the journal to be more clear.

youtube has an app made just for kids why does the adult app need to be safe for them too? it doesnt, treating an app made for adults as if we are children is rather, inappropriate for companies to do, and a huge over reach of power, we have legal systems that dictate what is appropriate for what environment its located, people we do buisness with dont get that type of control as they are all too easily controlled by wealth

It doesn't make any sense. I highly agree with your claims.

This could refer to many things, which in of itself is very concerning. All the NSFW takedown stuff will get reversed eventually, and for all the age verification stuff I'm sure it'll get buffed out in time. The best we can do now is educate ourselves and speak out on what we can.

Yes, this refers to many and all of the things happening as of now. I encourage others to investigate for themselves and learn about the current state of the internet.

It might not get reversed if they manage to pass similar worldwide. Which is what might happen because of how many countries currently have that sort of thing on the table for consideration.

And you have places like the UK also putting ID age verification for anything thay might have "adult" content. And Spotify and Youtube just decided to apply that worldwide to their content.

If there's enough backlash (and a possible lawsuit from YouTube's history of data leaks), then maybe they'll get their heads out of their asses. Might be a lot to hope for, but I hope for it nonetheless.

Sign these petitions then, let's not just sit idly by and do nothing about it.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
https://www.change.org/p/tell-maste.....ay?signed=true

Signed both already. Thank you for posting.

Oh, one of them is the UK one? I didn't sign that one because I can't. But there is also another from the ACLU I did.

sign them already too, also damn thats so many signatures last i saw it was half that

It may not be the end of it, but they are certainly trying their hardest to make sure we can't so much as blink without permission, If we don't stop them we will be witnessing more than just the end of free speech online, it'll be another step towards the end of all freedom, and of all creativity.

I legit believe it will get to the point where you will have to scan your face to watch TV if people don't start pushing back. This is about surveillance and data collection, not safety. There are much less invasive approaches to verify age checks that are being ignored.

Funny, all we really need to do is make it so parents have more time to spend parenting and incentivize them to do so and suddenly the kids they keep going on about will be much more safe than any of this nonsense could ever do. So we know its not about the children and never was.

Agreed. It actually makes the internet less safe for a multitude of reasons. Scammers are gonna have a field day with these new regulations.

Exactly! Nothing good could ever come of this stuff and its painful to see they CAN'T see that.

"We promise to make the internet safe for everyone, especially the children! And by doing this we need to regulate your internet freedom!"

"The government used Dictatorship. It's not very effective."

Promising something that sounds like a good thing, but there's always a dark motive behind it. The corrupt method of controlling free speech on the internet is just the governments way of controlling users and what they view on the internet, not truly making it safe for everyone. They're using the overused braindead tactic of "ThInK oF tHe ChIlDrEn!" to spearhead these actions to have the government hover our your shoulder to watch everything your doing on your PC or mobile devices. This is only a baby step which will expand into full control over the years if this isn't stopped. Big names are even talking about this like YT, certain political figures and such there should be petitions to sign to fight back against this since this is starting first into the UK before the rest of the world is affected next. This will also reach into art websites that feature NSFW and fetish art like this one. Unfortunately, this will also include some art that is safe which may not be in their eyes. It'll be North Korea 2.0. This is concerning, but not surprising to me since government control has been trying to make this a reality for years now. Movies, games, cartoons (aka anime), etc will also be impacted by this eventually.

Oh also this won't just be free speech in trouble, this is affecting Visa/Mastercard companies as well since they're two of the major card usages on the planet. Steam was recently forced to remove a lot of adult and very weird gamed. I honestly don't care for adult games, but to those that do it's still controlling and disgusting to see that a card company thinks that it has a monopoly over us just because of how much impact they have on spending choices.

Yes. This is clearly about controlling adults.
If this was really about protecting children, we would be using a better system that doesn't involve doxxing ourselves.