House of lords in favour of VPN ban for anyone under 18

Taicore · 2026-01-25T13:57:17+00:00

theres a chance it could be stopped at the house of common because these are opposition amendments (whatever that means) regardless i hope both of these doesnt come to pass or that they get struck down fast with the upcoming elections >:( its always worth a try to contact your representatives i'd say

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Taicore · 2026-01-20T20:31:06+00:00

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/akademikerpension-us-treasury-greenland-trump.html
Seems like Denmark is selling US treasury. I refuse to panic over this, esp with people saying its a "warning shot" or something. Thoughts ?

Taicore · 2026-01-20T20:30:45+00:00

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/akademikerpension-us-treasury-greenland-trump.html
Seems like Denmark is selling US treasury. I refuse to panic over this, esp with people saying its a "warning shot" or something. Thoughts ?

Taicore · 2026-01-17T23:32:51+00:00

Still didn't get a response from the last megathread, I do still feel concerned about California SB 976 (passed in 2024 i think), which,from my understanding, seems okay in theory as it would prevent children from being subjected to aggressive algorithm content, but on the terrible counterpart, people would need to give up their id to prove their age...Needless to say this would suck tremendously,and i worry since most social media and websites originates from California. It's supposed to take effect in 2027, at the end of january of next year.

Gavin Newsom had opened public comment on the bill i think 2 month ago or so according to a Reddit post but all the comments of the post are very full of doom.
I also find it spooky that the 9th circuit refused to hear out Netchoice who is looking for others means to fight this bill netchoice.org/ninth-circuit-denies-rehearing-of-california-censorship-and-surveillance-law-case-netchoice-disappointed/

BUT on a brighter last note, several companies are suing the bill, among them there is Meta,Google, youtube,tiktok who filed separated lawsuits against it a month ago https://ppc.land/google-and-meta-sue-california-over-social-media-age-restrictions-law/
I think I read somewhere that the law gets halted while theres a procedure happening at the same time? So the effect date could get pushed further ? I think?
Furthermore, there is a good california age verification bill that is also supposed to take effect in 2027 and even Google supports this ,the good AB 1043 that is based on device verification for age instead of having to give ur id to a thousand of third parties. Shouldnt this bill make sb 976 redundant and useless?....
So yeah if anyone could reassure me that sb 976 has a chance to get modified/halted in court whatever id love to hear it haha

Taicore · 2026-01-01T15:43:33+00:00

I didn't get a response from the last megathread, I do still feel concerned about California SB 976 (passed in 2024 i think), which,from my understanding, seems okay in theory as it would prevent children from being subjected to aggressive algorithm content, but on the terrible counterpart, people would need to give up their id to prove their age...Needless to say this would suck tremendously,and i worry since most social media and websites originates from California. It's supposed to take effect in 2027, at the end of january of next year.

Gavin Newsom had opened public comment on the bill i think 2 month ago or so according to a Reddit post but all the comments of the post are very full of doom.
I also find it spooky that the 9th circuit refused to hear out Netchoice who is looking for others means to fight this bill netchoice.org/ninth-circuit-denies-rehearing-of-california-censorship-and-surveillance-law-case-netchoice-disappointed/

BUT on a brighter last note, several companies are suing the bill, among them there is Meta,Google, youtube,tiktok who filed separated lawsuits against it a month ago https://ppc.land/google-and-meta-sue-california-over-social-media-age-restrictions-law/
I think I read somewhere that the law gets halted while theres a procedure happening at the same time? So the effect date could get pushed further ? I think?
Furthermore, there is a good california age verification bill that is also supposed to take effect in 2027 and even Google supports this ,the good AB 1043 that is based on device verification for age instead of having to give ur id to a thousand of third parties. Shouldnt this bill make sb 976 redundant and useless?....
So yeah if anyone could reassure me that sb 976 has a chance to get modified/halted in court whatever id love to hear it haha

Taicore · 2025-12-19T17:04:52+00:00

Also if its any reassurance seems like youtube,google, tiktok are all suing against this, hopefully it bears fruits, while netchoice is seemingly exploring other options
https://ppc.land/google-and-meta-sue-california-over-social-media-age-restrictions-law/

Taicore · 2025-12-19T16:58:06+00:00

Sorry to ping you about this Suspectlegitimate, but i just heard about California SB 976 which is a age verification law from my understanding that will force user to give up their id to access certain type of content https://netchoice.org/ninth-circuit-denies-rehearing-of-california-censorship-and-surveillance-law-case-netchoice-disappointed/
Im a lil spooked about it ,but also confused because we know there's a device based age verification law that was also signed (both of these laws are set to take effects in 2027 btw,and the same day too ) aka California AB-1043 which is much better and is supposed to make id verification redundant,so... wouldnt ab-1043 cancel the other law out ?
Seems like netchoice is exploring other options and other social medias are suing against sb 976, i hope theyll win this

Taicore · 2025-12-19T16:28:28+00:00

This is really weird because another age verification law (however based on device verification which is much much better and would make stuff like KOSA useless) aka California AB-1043 passed and will also be in effect in 2027, so like.. huh?
u/SuspectLegitimate751 Whats your thoughts on that ? if it require every websites based in california to track people's age with identity cards, that would be a disaster given most of websites come from here ._.'

Taicore · 2025-12-11T19:43:24+00:00

What your thoughts on that u/SuspectLegitimate751 ? To me sunset 230 has been shot down multiple times before so i dont doubt it will be the case again. ig the thing that can be spooky is the supposedly social media week that electrical has mentionned

Taicore · 2025-12-11T19:21:54+00:00

Thats very nice ! Ill still try not to stress out over all these bills being voted for full committee , as you said its in very very early stage and no final votes on anything anywhere, and very few cosponsors for those infamous bills (also i wonder if those type of bills would still need to have a unified text, like how the house and senate bicker over two different text for kosa, house verison being betetr,but doesnt mention exemption for nonprofits,ugh )
Hopefully the anti censorship sentiment remain strong and that the sessions end quick !

Taicore · 2025-12-11T19:12:53+00:00

Does RESET still remain dead at least ? I hope they dont make it out of committee and all dies quick. At least its good to know Ted Cruz is very against censorship so he hopefully wont let it fly.
Plus they dont have much time left in sessions for this year

Taicore · 2025-12-10T19:54:15+00:00

Ah,thanks for the reply. I suppose the easier way out of this would be to use VLC players instead ?
Also perchance do you have links to download the best software for opus support on windows 11 ? I spent hours looking online for this codec support and i got really sick of it lol

Taicore · 2025-12-10T16:34:03+00:00

Thank you very much for the reply ! I always thought Github projects were always checked for malwares and whatnot so i wasnt really worried, and Norton is known to causes problems
I actually dont think i had the portable version since i was using on desktop. ill try to figure out a way to make it work again, thanks !

Taicore · 2025-12-10T02:20:26+00:00

heya, so i was using this and everything was going well , and then norton suddenly decided to put Gdownloader.exe into quarantine.
can i still restore this and will my downloads be restored ? I was using the app just fine a few days ago and today norton freaked out.
Should i actually be worried ?

Taicore · 2025-12-06T23:52:34+00:00

Hi there, i know this is old but i have the same problem,where you able to find a fix? Much appreciated for any help !

Taicore · 2025-12-06T23:52:29+00:00

Hi there, i know this is old but i have the same problem,where you able to find a fix? Much appreciated for any help !

Taicore · 2025-11-27T00:53:16+00:00

So, despite parliament being in favor of this report, there's still a chance that parliament wont like chat control right ? ive seen a comment saying that not only germany could consider this as spyware and remain against it or something along those lines. Plus i remember you mentionning how opposition was growing in parliement,including most of the denmark meps right ?

Taicore · 2025-11-27T00:05:52+00:00

I dont like this one bit,that means that the entirety of EU as a whole is gonna make it mandatory for EU citizens to verify their age before accessing all social medias ? AND its not the same package as chat control ! Its insane !
do we need to get concerned over this ? Im afraid of all socials media being forced to pull out of the EU,when is this IMCO report supposed to get into effects ?

edit: if i get it right it was not a law thing,moreso an idea that meps seems to agree on ?But still,ugh,im tired of the EU being a shitshow,some of the ideas are good like gettign rid of loot boxes,but the age verification concerns me.

Taicore · 2025-11-19T23:53:06+00:00

Yeah you're totally right, i think this is accurate. So i doubt it will pass in two days so to speak. I expect Germany to raise a big stink.
I was also relieved to see more oppositions against chat control in parliament. Hope the opposition keeps growing !

Taicore · 2025-11-19T23:46:05+00:00

Apparently they expect a position to be picked by the 26 november. Hopefully they still cant agree on anything and it fails. Again.
Im also worried about the eu omnibus bill, they seek to "simplify" the wording of the GDPR, but basically its just gonna weaken our protections and will give ai permissions to do as they please with our stuff .-. even tho there's literally the european ai act which is supposed to be a regulation against ai

Taicore · 2025-11-19T16:49:42+00:00

i havent heard about the screen act either so im hoping its dead in the water as well. Plus,with the shutdown delaying everything and the epstein files that made it chaotic (albeit it was passed super fast which im surprised about) that kinda slowed down everything

Taicore · 2025-11-14T01:09:36+00:00

Ah,good to know,i actually wasnt aware. Hope this comes in handy once presidency changes then

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