{"id":68222,"date":"2024-05-19T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68222"},"modified":"2024-05-19T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:52:03","slug":"eu-investigates-meta-in-crackdown-on-alleged-rabbit-hole-effects-wants-it-to-push-digital-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68222","title":{"rendered":"EU Investigates Meta in Crackdown on Alleged \u201cRabbit Hole\u201d Effects, Wants It To Push Digital ID"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EU Investigates Meta in Crackdown on Alleged \u201cRabbit Hole\u201d Effects, Wants It To Push Digital ID<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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There was a lot of talk about\u00a0the EU\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA)<\/a>\u00a0while it was drafted and during the typical-of-the-bloc tortuous process of adoption, but now that it\u2019s been here for a while, we\u2019ve been getting a sense of how it is being put to use.<\/p>\n

Utilizing the European digital ID wallet to carry out age verification is just one of the fever pitch ideas here. And EU bureaucrats are trying to make sure that these controversial policies are presented as perfectly in line with how DSA was originally pitched.<\/p>\n

The regulation was slammed by opponents as in reality a sweeping online censorship law hiding behind focused, and noble, declarations that its goal was to protect children\u2019s well-being, fight disinformation, etc.<\/p>\n

The cold hard reality is that trying to (further) turn the screw \u2013 any which way they can \u2013 on platforms with the most reach and most influence ahead of an election is simply something that those in power, whether it\u2019s the US or the EU, don\u2019t seem to be able to resist.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the European Commission (who\u2019s current president is\u00a0actively campaigning to get reappointed in the wake of next month\u2019s European Parliament elections<\/a>) opening an investigation into Meta on suspicion its flagship platforms, Facebook and Instagram, create \u201caddictive behavior among children and damage mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n

After all, exerting a bit more pressure on social media just before an election never hurt anybody. \/s<\/p>\n

Thierry Breton, an EU commissioner who made a name for himself as a proponent of all sorts of online speech restrictions during the current, soon to expire European Commission mandate, reared his head again here:<\/p>\n

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EU Investigates Meta in Crackdown on Alleged \u201cRabbit Hole\u201d Effects, Wants It To Push Digital ID There was a lot of talk about\u00a0the EU\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA)\u00a0while it was drafted and during the typical-of-the-bloc tortuous process of adoption, but now that it\u2019s been here for a while, we\u2019ve been getting a sense of how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,33879,29823,2535,29337,32278,33878],"class_list":["post-68222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-digital-id","tag-european-commission","tag-mass-surveilance","tag-meta","tag-reclaim-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68223,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68222\/revisions\/68223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}