Stop Killing the Internet needs 1 million EU signatures like with Stop Killing Games https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/19418

You know man is serious when he doesn't give a crap if you're having a lovely day or not

We've seen politicians in almost every country jump through hoops to protect pedophiles, it's too late to ask us to believe that initiatives like this are designed to protect children.

If parents don't want their children to have access to adult content, THEY need to monitor their access, not place the burden on everyone else in society to keep their children safe, because society doesn't and it won't. It's ridiculous to make us all jump through hoops and risk ourselves and our freedom all so that more parents feel enabled to give their children unrestricted access to the just as dangerous Internet, and continue blaming anything bad that happens on society not doing "enough" to cater everything to them and their children.

Not only its mass-surveillance, its a nail in a coffin of any small business

I remember when kids were taught not to share their personal information online to stay safe, and it worked.

"I haven't done anything wrong so I have nothing to hide" until they change what wrong means.

The EU in SKG “ what you’re proposing is too broad”

The EU in doxxx yourself act “ you have to show your ID for every website you visit that has chat function”

all this is going to do for kids is make them learn to use sketchier alternatives and bypass programs that do not ask for age verification

In the video when I said they would make game servers illegal, I meant this would be the practical outcome.  If people want the more accurate version, there are two types of private servers:
1. The normal kind, you can run it completely independent of the publisher and no one can turn it off.
2. The leased kind that are more like a private instance of the game, but still have to authenticate through the publisher.  If they decide to shut down their central server, yours goes down as well and have no control over its longevity.

#2 could still be legal under EU Kids Act, but aren't the common definition of private servers.  For #1, theoretically some could still be legal, but in reality, it would basically never happen if this passed.  There are multiple reasons, but the main one is cost.  Each private server would need age verification up the EU Kids Act standards (including guardian tools), which I was told comes to about $20,000 USD per month for the services it requires.  That alone is going to eliminate almost every game off the bat, no one is paying that much on top of hosting costs to host a game.  But even beyond that, it would be impossible for most games because the end user wouldn't have access to the code necessary to integrate the age checks, and even if they did, they wouldn't have a license to do so.  So it's a fantasy to assume anyone is going to be hosting a game that way.  Only well funded studios will be, and those are not private / community servers.  So yes, it wouldn't literally make private game servers illegal, just 99-100% of them.

Now the economic activity argument is a valid one and accurately represented by Louis.  As I understand it though, it doesn't take much in the EU to be considered economic activity especially since:
-Even free servers compete with commercial games for customer time
-Even when free, continued playing of commercial  games maintain the commercial value of the IP, promote sequels, or fulfill contractual obligations from the original sale
This could VERY easily push it into economic activity, and that's just for discontinued games.  For actively sold games (like Minecraft) I don't think there's a chance of those not being considered economic activity in the EU.

to be clear, Europe isn't planning to ruin the internet, authoritarian EU politicians are

Can I claim I'm under age to the TV itself stops spying on me?

We cannot make a law to protect consumers, but we can make a law that will destroy consumers protection. Let it sink.

Show me a system that cannot be broken and I'll show you a system that can be broken. My privacy comes before your laws.

I have a much safer idea that pretty much does all of this.

Parents, don't give your kids a phone or tablet with internet access.

Parents, monitor what your children do instead of letting the internet raise them.

Parents, enforce usage limits of electronic devices.

Government, leave people alone.

One thing that you can do, if you are an EU citizen, is to sign the Stop Killing the Internet iniative. It is an iniative created by people behind Stop Killing Games movement and by signing this iniative you can let your displeasure of this Kids act be known.

Using valid public security concerns to justify overbearing authoritarian measures that do not solve the underlying problems. How cliché.

I'm so tired of bad parents being such a willing scapegoat for government overreach

Youtube just sent me an email saying:

"To help keep our community safe, we limit some of our more powerful features to channels who have built and maintained a positive channel history or who have provided verification.

As of now, your channel doesn’t have sufficient channel history. It has lost access to advanced features. This may have happened because your channel did not follow our Community Guidelines."

"How to restore access to advanced features"
"Provide video or ID verification for quicker access."

I created my channel Sep 28, 2006 and that isn't sufficient channel history... So I have to give Youtube my ID just to share a link in my video descriptions now.. What's next??

Instead of age verification, EU needs laws that verify that our politicians are competent.