First one to build the unconnected EV where the purchaser has admin rights (and no one else), wins the race.
Here in the United States a person can already build new or convert existing gasoline vehicles to be "unconnected" and in every way except possibly the battery management doing it with an EV would actually be easier.
It does cost money and take some time but probably less of both than you may think.
Imagine a hallucination engine being developed globally by white men in China on data gathered by white men in India.
Wait...what?
Truth is that even here in the United States roughly 30% of the AI Workforce is non-male. You can hop online and look at pictures from AI Conferences from around the world and notice a high participation of non-male presenting people, sometimes approaching at least half the audience.
MFA is the biggest hurdle. I literally could not do my job without it.
I want Roku to fuck all the way off with that plan.
Why does it have to be one or the other? I both read books and watch YT videos nearly every day.
Yep, and every one of them already complies with age verification laws so as new laws are added they're going to comply with those as well. There are very few web admins / sysops / site operators out there who are willing, or even able, to buck these kinds of national laws.
Many fediverse hosts will make an effort to stay open by shifting their servers to countries that are out of reach of verification and law enforcement but that will only last so long.
Why do you assume that the old school forums are going to get exempted? They are going to get on the bus or get run over by it just like everywhere else. Government has already proven that they can, and will, regulate those forums.
decentralized apps, fediverse
Those apps and / or the fediverse itself would get sued into the ground and shut down one app or server at a time. There's nothing stopping any Governments authorities from going after servers inside their borders and there's nothing stopping them from "harmonizing" identity verification restrictions among other countries. They've already done it once with Intellectual Property law.
This push to de-anonymize the Internet isn't new either. Microsoft started this back in the oughts with their Passport / Digital-ID program. Google and Meta, along with others, long ago launched their own versions and it's why you can sign into so many websites with a Google or Facebook account.
It's generally referred to as IdP and now that the Internet has been fully corporatized, with minor holdouts, you can bet your bippy that the days of anonymous access are ending.
You made me do this, capitalism.
This is a problem with Government not an economic system. It's about control, not dollars, pounds, or yuan.
Hell we don't even know where the money is coming from (our Government is shut down right now, remember?) let alone what form the transfer will take.