EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

Re:EU age verification app to ban any Android system not lic... by dotancohen on Monday July 28, 2025 @01:04AM (#44707371)

Or maybe, like my friend from Riga tells me, the Russian years were not "terrorism".

Right now, Russia (I have no affiliation, other than thinking that Russian girls are pretty) and Israel (my country) are the big villains online. I completely support Israel, and am constantly silenced online, even on HN. I wonder if those who support Russia are similarly silenced. I hear that in Riga food was more plentiful and nobody slept in the streets during the Soviet years. There was no dream of getting rich, but no fear of losing your home and livelihood. And now, the big change is that there is still no dream of getting rich.

So maybe Poland/Czech/Baltic states have insight that comes from experience with both ideaologies.

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Re:EU age verification app to ban any Android system not lic... by edgineer on Monday July 28, 2025 @01:17AM (#44707434)

Stories of Russian war crimes personally experienced post-invasion told in my family

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Re:EU age verification app to ban any Android system not lic... by dotancohen on Monday July 28, 2025 @02:53AM (#44707967)

Sure, nobody is denying that. That does not contradict the argument (not mine) that perhaps people lived more secure lives under Soviet rule.

Note that I define "more secure" as in not living in fear of losing home and income. Not necessarily that their standard of living was as good as those in the West.

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Re:EU age verification app to ban any Android system not lic... by calgoo on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:39AM (#44708257)

It depends: if you are part of the party and things are going good then yes. However, if you are from a group of people that you government has decided is trouble, then you tend to disappear in the night. Like my mother in law who says things where so safe when there was police on every corner in Spain during the dictatorship but my father in law was hiding "reds" under the floorboards as they where Jewish and being procecuted. One does not take away from the other, instead of criminals threatening you it's the government goons.

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Re:EU age verification app to ban any Android system not lic... by dotancohen on Monday July 28, 2025 @06:27AM (#44709307)

  > if you are from a group of people that you government has decided is trouble, then you tend to disappear in the night.

So this really is a case of survivorship bias. Those that survived the Soviet times, remember it, not fondly, but as a more secure time. Those that didn't survive, we don't hear their accounts very much.

  > my father in law was hiding "reds" under the floorboards as they where Jewish and being procecuted.

Why were the Jews being persecuted then?

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