The current proposal as far as I understand it is that they will tell a company/service to "voluntaraly" scan the content.

Then an open source project that is forced to comply can just stop development and be forked on the last commit and shrug shoulders.

Which will buy enough time, because legally making those requests will take time and work. I can easily see fork related infrastructure for end users making it really eash or automatic to keep up with that cycle.

But even better would be to develop open source hardware based communication solutions, that don't have the ability to add a backdoor through a software patch. Think like a pager with all the security and privacy bells and whistles.

This is depressing.

Prohibition leads to the propagation of means of evasion. By attempting to ban teenagers from popular means of communications they will incentivize mass adoption of "illicit means" of communications, and create another generation both familiar and comfortable with "illegal online activity" like the Napster generation. Just like Napster, this will also accidentally push youth into online platforms and channels where they are more likely to encounter content not suitable for minors and malware.

The only "truly effective" form that this type of internet control can take is requiring a digital ID verification to establish a connection to the network at the ISP, and that is a nightmare setup we should be prepared to fight tooth and nail.

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