I feel compelled to post an observation, and will then pay the tax and write my irrelevant opinion. This thread reads as if it were written for the most part by
tumblrinas resetards bluesky fags (must keep up with the times as those "people" change platforms), with all the mentions of "dogwhistles" worthy of an ADL page about the latest /pol/ word for "niggers" and "jews", talk in the same rhyme of "call of duty players will go shoot schools" that's almost old enough to run for Senator, low effort "I found this image on a website that people upload any images they find online, this somehow means you browse that site and consume whatever is also uploaded there" and so on. I have the impression a number of posters haven't been on the internet (or this planet) very long to post some things going for the maximum outrage farming, but that doesn't seem to stop other people from digging their grave falling for what is functionally equivalent to bait: good job for that, nothing else. And by that I mean looking for quick owns (like one's avatar) and committing <insert fallacy of choice here> every other paragraph.
The proposal in question (that doesn't seem overly encompassing at a quick glance, EU and UK have repeatedly tried to pass things much, much more dystopian) and similar things will probably become commonplace regardless of what you think about it, because generative software (for image, audio and now video) has gotten too good, too quickly, disrupting the previous conception of laws covering this topic and anything new would expand on, and it's understandable why, soon enough (if not already) the average individual will be able to create any sort of content that looks realistic to the casual viewer, at their leisure and however they want it. That's what seems to be the focus of it, and I don't think its authors even know (and/or care) it may affect some guy's stash of anime screenshots or what that even means. Could it be abused by your three letter agencies of choice to empower them? No doubt, but that's for
any law, and
this stuff isn't new, some have been warning about it for decades.. but I'll refrain from citing some uber-autist like Stallman about it.
This is the age of shrinking personal freedoms (what must be a brief anomaly) and tech companies (the surveillance arm of every government) tracking and monitoring everything you do at all times even without this law or some other (see:
Google scanning some father's phone and reporting him to the police wrongly, a story that would lead Apple to stop their own announced local monitoring tool), nobody is allowed to be up there proposing and passing any law that protects
you from the slippery slope those surveillance systems allow. And most of those people have never had any idea how a computer works or what technology allows, further justifying vague and obtuse legislation up for all sorts of inane interpretations until they're tested in court. That's only going to get worse with every new advancement in any field, but this one may be the most disruptive I can think of until they can read and upload your very thoughts from your personal XLink brain implant (give it some time), so any sort of regulation is going to be a mess (and I wonder why they haven't gone straight for the sites distributing models, as that would benefit coporations too).
Everything will get worse no matter what the excuse for it is, there will be others that rile people up just as much and work just fine to pass laws. Enjoy the ride, shit is fucked and will be in ways you can't imagine yet. And maybe get rickrolled by your own government when they pretend to release the Epstein files, that seems on topic.