"The path Bluesky has chosen is Kids Web Services (KWS), a system controlled by Epic Games. Yes, that Epic Games. To verify yourself as an adult to Bluesky UK, you'll have to register with KWS... You have to give permission for an enormous amount of your personal data, including payment card details, phone number, address, face scan, national ID numbers and documents, access to your device details, when, where, and for how often you do things online, and on and on."
I only have so many faces I can palm.
Of all companies, we're handing the management of this over to the company that operates Fortnite and is substantially owned by China-based media mogul Tencent.
We're going to fracture the web into pieces, aren't we?
"The path Bluesky has chosen is Kids Web Services (KWS), a system controlled by Epic Games. Yes, that Epic Games. To verify yourself as an adult to Bluesky UK, you'll have to register with KWS... You have to give permission for an enormous amount of your personal data, including payment card details, phone number, address, face scan, national ID numbers and documents, access to your device details, when, where, and for how often you do things online, and on and on."
I only have so many faces I can palm.
Of all companies, we're handing the management of this over to the company that operates Fortnite and is substantially owned by China-based media mogul Tencent.
We're going to fracture the web into pieces, aren't we?
Considering the west is taking pages out of the sino playbook, it’s the logical progression.
maybe they're going with the worst possible option to prove what a stupid idea it is right out of the gate?
This has been contested for literally a decade. What changed for the government to finally push this through?
Weird direction we are moving at