If it's decided that the effort to create an European Citizens' Initiative will go ahead then @piscesartist98.bsky.social can be my front person to head such an effort since she shares my hatred against the harsh inactive account deletion policies and actually lives in the EU.
The designated services should also offer adequate support options in case there are unexpected factors such as imprisonment and internet blackouts, so that the thanatosensitivistic timers can be extended or modified.
That means that the financial costs required for the services to maintain access to user data or so on would become a government expense, an essential service akin to a military defense budget. After all there's one big utilitarian reason to pass such legislation.
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Big Tech services will certainly retort to the proposal by saying that it's costly to maintain access and preserve user data but there's a way to address that. Email services and social media platforms must be treated as effective utilities, similar to healthcare and other emergency services.
For thanatosensitivistic features to kick in, a will from the user is normally required. However the services should offer an option for the users where the features can kick in if their accounts are inactive for five years.
In the second case, the services should only delete mailbox contents (similar to what Yahoo is doing now) instead of the accounts altogether. Account deletions can only happen if the accounts are abandoned for a year immediately after creation, or if the user choose for such.
Regarding harsh inactive account deletion policies, such practices would be restricted in the following cases:
1. It affects something you materially paid for like goods
2. Email services
3. Social media services
Basically, the proposed legislation will mandate certain Big Tech platforms to offer their users the following choices on what to do with their accounts if they die:
1. Archive/memorialization
2. Deletion
3. Transfer to other people, especially next of kins, if technically possible
The effort is gonna be herculean. Among the things to consider is the need for due diligence in order to avoid letting the intiative get hijacked by political extremists such as the far-right and so on.
Inspired by the Stop Killing Games movement I'm looking for help to kickstart an European Citizens' Initiative to propose a digital legacies legislation even though I don't live in the EU and have good reasons to be pseudonymous.
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ICE agents in 2029 if the GOP is defeated in elections.
There are indeed many people who will double down on behalf of Wikipedia when faced with criticism about the encyclopedia's issues. It's as if Wikipedia has devolved into a cult.
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Nani?
At this point it's prolly inevitable that the Congress will investigate Wikipedia, even though there is a Democrat majority in the former after the 2026 elections.
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Estonian media is now reporting that Wikipedia is distorted by Ruzzian propagandists. This is really something that will alienate Wikipedia from center-left audiences.
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Indeed.
Indeed.
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We need to recognize that Wikipedia have structural problems that must be urgently addressed.
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You're looking at the tip of the iceberg.
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You're looking at the tip of the iceberg.
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Wikipedia do have problems but liberal biases are not really part of them.
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