EU parliament accepted a last minute amendment, mandating age verification for pornographic (whatever that is) content online, punishable with up to one year prison sentence.

This was rolled into a directive concerning CSAM. Because adults accessing porn need to be de-anonymised to avoid child exploitation?

Some press releases: (1), (2), (3)

  • manualoverride@lemmy.world
    12·
    9 days ago

    Carnegie UK, did this in the UK… the same Carnegie that was one of the original “robber barons” of the Industrial Revolution, until the public were so angry about the wealth gap the governments of the time were forced to introduce labour laws and stop their greed. This is sounding familiar…

    Anyway 100 years later his companies and “charities” are back to fuck with us again.

      • Ediacarium@feddit.org
        9·
        9 days ago

        From the second link (which seems to be the list from the EU Parliament):

        Amendment 186 François-Xavier Bellamy, Javier Zarzalejos, Regina Doherty, Laurent Castillo, Axel Voss, Gabriel Mato, Romana Tomc, Massimiliano Salini, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, Esteban González Pons, Fulvio Martusciello, Oliver Schenk, Matej Tonin, Loucas Fourlas, Sander Smit, Željana Zovko, Fredis Beleris, Angelika Niebler, Nadine Morano, Isabelle Le Callennec, Christophe Gomart, Ana Miguel Pedro, Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Salvatore De Meo, Davor Ivo Stier, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Ilia Lazarov, Karlo Ressler, Miriam Lexmann, Alma Ezcurra Almansa, Letizia Moratti, Borja Giménez Larraz, Elena Nevado del Campo, Céline Imart, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Jessika Van Leeuwen, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Zoltán Tarr, Dolors Montserrat, Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, Daniel Caspary

      • manualoverride@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 days ago

        Well he also died over 100 years ago. But at the very least we should be angry at the Carnegie UK Trust that pushed through this dystopian legislation first.