Actually I feel conflicted since a lot of books will necessitate cutting down a lot of trees.

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Openbaar jaarverslag 2025 Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst | Defensie.nl Rivaliserende grootmachten die strijden om politieke, militaire, economische en technologische macht, zetten de veiligheid van Europa onder druk. Zo hebben China en Rusland grote geopolitieke ambities...

CCP uses "whole of society" approach when it comes to spying.
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China’s armed police mull riot control with zero human contact The People’s Armed Police Force has shown how drones, uncrewed armoured vehicles and robot dogs could autonomously contain urban unrest.

CCP is looking to commit Ghorman-style suppressions with AI if it captures Taiwan.
www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Malaysia’s under-16 social media ban plan faces growing pushback over privacy and human rights concerns - SoyaCincau An open letter to PM Anwar Ibrahim urges Malaysia to scrap under-16 social media ban, raising concerns over privacy, freedom of expression and effectiveness

Meanwhile, in Malaysia some civil society groups have penned an open letter eloquently explaining why the age verification laws will lead to a digital panopticon.
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50501 and so on should really start organizing on worldwide protests against the privacy-intrusive age verification laws soon.

Violence is not acceptable especially if it's gonna harm innocent people, but people are getting squeezed from all sides. Look at China, where there are too many senseless "Xianzhong" incidents because people have no good way to voice their grievances and get the redress they need.

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I don't see anything good coming from these rushes. There are already violent calls against those privacy-intrusive laws on the Internet by now!
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SNS利用に年齢制限を義務付けへ…総務省有識者会議で事業者に制限求める案を提示　未成年のSNS依存対策で - ライブドアニュース 未成年のSNSへの依存が問題視されるなか、総務省は利用に年齢制限を義務づけるよう事業者に求める方針です。SNSを利用する場合、年齢制限を設定するかどうかは、現在は、利用者側の判断に委ねられています。関係者に

The "cage verification" laws are spreading across the world.
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There must be an European Citizens' Initiative to push for a digital legacies legislation.

This is because it would defeat the purpose of the legislation if platforms are allowed to get off the hook to "wreck history" by intentionally lowing their turnover and user numbers through sordid means.

While the UK's digital markets competition regime mandates review of strategic market status on regular intervals, such a thing can and must be forgone in this case.

The turnover thingy should be a secondary or discretionary criteria as well, since there are many platforms which fulfill the latter two criteria without meeting the first, such as Bluesky and Proton.

How the UK’s digital markets competition regime works How the digital markets competition regime will promote competition in digital markets.

The following from the UK government may help in inspiration as to creating criteria on including other services under the scope of a digital legacies legislation.
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The Last Dinosaurs: Why Academia Keeps Protecting Its Worst Senior Faculty On the care and feeding of faculty who outlasted their usefulness

The Last Dinosaurs: Why Academia Keeps Protecting Its Worst Senior Faculty
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Targeted shooting at home of Indy city-county councilor includes anti-data center message IMPD and the FBI are investigating a targeted shooting at the home of City -County Councilor Ron Gibson. Council President Maggie Lewis called the incident an "alarming and unacceptable escalation."

In the meantime, the same had just happened for data centers debate.
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MLCOA: Assassinations. Small-scale randomly targeted violence.
MDCOA: Mass-casualty type violence. Hostage crises.
Best case scenario: Cooler heads prevail as these bad laws get rolled back because of constitutional issues or because of mass peaceful protests.

Turkey says users will need national ID numbers to access social media within 3 months - Stockholm Center for Freedom Turks will need national ID numbers to access social media within three months, Justice Minister Akın Gürlek said on Friday, in a move that would mark a new expansion of state control over online speech in the country. According to Turkish Minute, speaking at a panel discussion in Diyarbakır, Gürlek said the government had reached […]

We are fast heading into 1984.
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Accordingly, I think that some will not take it well.
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I hate deletionists at Wikipedia.

Personally I feel that they have to try separating the art from the artist, or else they'll end up getting slippery slopes to purity spirals that in turn will cause the same kind of community issues as those on Wikipedia.

TIL that there's a big scandal in the SCP community where a longtime admin "Bright" is exposed as a groomer and now the SCP community is going to nuke his works from the SCP wiki site.

There should be something like the Keeping Places as depicted in the Orion's Arm fictional universe one day.
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We may be looking at the tip of an iceberg.

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Link the issue to the recent revelations regarding the Epstein Files and float the possibility that the global elites are pushing for privacy-intrusive digital ID laws in order to stop whistleblowers from exposing more elite scandals like those of Epstein's.

Given what's in the Epstein Files don't be surprised if the push for destroying user's privacy is actually ploys by people implicated in the Epstein Files to clutch their pearls.

Not to mention privacy issues, since age verification methods will inevitably use facial checks and ID verifications in some ways. That's unless Needemand's BorderAge solution is included as one of the methods.

I'm no fan of Wikipedia but the hallucination on Grokipedia is cringe indeed.

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