alt Hacker NewsI find it hard to believe that so many politicians have just completely lost their minds in the last few years. This is just so wrong on so many levels.
Could be a ploy to give the big commercial players more power while making life shit for FOSS and smaller players. I doubt so many grassroots movements gained traction around the same time globally.
Honestly the reason seems quite obvious to me. Most people are getting seriously concerned about how the internet affects children. It's as simple as that. Children are getting cyberbullied and predated on while on platforms like Roblox. They're committing suicide after talking to ChatGPT. They're getting all sorts of mental disorders from tiktok and twitter. When you hear day after day the sorts of traumas that kids are going through (ones that are quite real!), it's hard to just say "well, the cure it worse then the disease, suck it up". A lot of people assume politicians are just greedy for power and are conspiring to give the government more surveillance power, but the simplest explanation here is that politicians are being screamed at to do something, and this is something.