assetstring @assetstringDev

@Hypixel @Simon_Hypixel Update to pit when?

So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet. The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems. Age verification is the wrong approach to fix “the social media problem” The big tech social media companies are bad. Their business model is bad; it is based on mass surveillance and manipulation, and they cooperate with governments in mapping entire populations. But age verification is fundamentally the wrong approach to preventing children from using big tech social media platforms. Introducing age verification is based on coercion; the state forces social media companies to verify their users’ identities. But the big tech social media platforms already know which of their users are children. Their business model depends on knowing this. They know how old users are, and they know exactly what type of person they are. As age verification is based on coercion, politicians could instead force platforms to stop doing the things politicians consider harmful to children, or force them to block children (again, they know who they are) from using their services. But instead, politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights on a global scale. In other words, the latter is the real objective – they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control. Slippery slope of age verification It is undeniable that age verification threatens freedom of expression, risks increasing mass surveillance, and is likely to lead to censorship. It will not only shrink the online world and reduce young people’s right to privacy (for example, if VPN services were to be restricted); but also risks becoming a significant step toward a controlled internet for everyone. Most age verification is identity verification Most countries are now considering introducing age verification systems, meaning that everyone would have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service or website. This is not age verification but identity verification, and the consequence is therefore that freedom of information is restricted (you can no longer visit regulated websites anonymously) and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. This is a major problem in countries like the UK and Germany where the police conduct raids on people’s homes for posting content on social media that the authorities dislike. Or in the United States, where authorities are trying to pressure tech companies into revealing the identities behind accounts protesting ICE. Social media identity verification removes important tools for activists in countries where criticizing those in power is dangerous. Restrictions on app store or operating system level Some countries are looking to impose identity verification at the app store level or even within the operating system itself. This is an exciting experiment, since this is possible to circumvent using open-source operating systems. Some countries are already looking to include open-source systems. Since open-source systems cannot be controlled, politicians would ultimately need to ban devices that are not controlled by the state. The end point: telescreens like those in Orwell’s 1984, devices that both monitor you and broadcast only the information approved by the state. The Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) alternative and the EU The EU has presented its own age verification app as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is currently designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time. Read more on our site. mullvad.net/blog/age-verif…

The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.” Once again, they use “what about the children”, this time to install state spyware that would continuously scan every action on a phone or tablet and watch everything that is shown on the screen. This will effectively ban end-to-end encrypted communication and open source operating systems like GrapheneOS and forbid that people have administrator rights on their own devices. The bill also seeks “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom” and wants “all regulated user-to-user services to use highly-effective age assurance measures to prevent children under the age of 16 from becoming or being users.” In practice, this means identity checks for VPN users, making things like anonymous whistleblowing difficult. The attack on secure and private communication is worldwide. Now is the time for resistance. Demand transparency from your politicians, and privacy for the people.

I want to put all the Roblox animators into a blender and shred all of them

@mfd

@coletucker 😂😂

Meta spent $80B on metaverse Shut everything down and just recreated Roblox Roblox IS the metaverse and every top tech company knows it 🤑 David has been ahead of these guys for a decade- I’d bet lots of negative PR is paid for/pushed by meta/epic/etc Roblox is 👑

tᥲꙆყᥲ ﾒ𝟶. @talya_us

a day ago

they copied @Roblox ggs 💔💔

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some people really be scamming for >100 dollars 😭 Like enjoy ur meal i guess bro

@coinbase I got scammed for 5 dollars today. This is too much for me to take coinbase, please help me

An artist for them to make me an actual render instead of this AI dogshit

Rusro @realrusro

6 days ago

What‘s the FIRST thing you would buy, IF you had INFINITE Roblox?

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@Agent_Olo Guys a fucking bum

The guy who uploads Roblox limited knockoffs for a living and who used to strike people's items to later reupload them on his account calling someone a "leech"

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MaӾӾell @Maxxell

6 days ago

You are an ungrateful shitty person and I'm glad your true colours are now being shown to the world. Imagine making millions of dollars via transaction skimming due to a lack of official Roblox feature, and when Roblox puts a stop to it you throw tantrums like an ungrateful

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@JustJimmyGuys 😂😂 This guy would be fuming if roblox took limited copies seriously

I’m sure you made a crap ton of money uploading bootleg limiteds so you shouldn’t complain if you got banned off the platform all of a sudden, right?

MaӾӾell @Maxxell

6 days ago

You are an ungrateful shitty person and I'm glad your true colours are now being shown to the world. Imagine making millions of dollars via transaction skimming due to a lack of official Roblox feature, and when Roblox puts a stop to it you throw tantrums like an ungrateful

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@IckyVickyRblx This guy aint right for shit, hazem has total rights to be angry about getting his income cut out of the blue 😂

i dont expect roblox to last forever but seeing this platform go downhill so fast in a short amount of time is crazy

@Freezeman8192 internet is nowadays bullshit, you cant do anything to keep private, every company needs ur ID, ur face, ur fucking address, ur payment info, ur full name. Privacy with these updates for companies are going to be impossible. Save us @mullvadnet

@votexfrenchfry Maxxel is a bum icl

@SurferRBLX Probably the first intelligent person I see commenting about this, Maxxell has to be ragebaiting