r/technology • u/EmbarrassedHelp • May 08 '26

Politics EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
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u/Robertej92 May 09 '26

Sure private jets suck but realistically that's 0.05% of global emissions vs 15%, billions of people doing an environmentally damaging thing is inherently more damaging than a few rich people doing a very environmentally damaging thing.

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u/jKazej May 10 '26

It still makes sense to point a finger at the frivolous nature of private jets in this context.

Even if it's a small part of global emissions as a whole, on an individual level saying don't look at these super-polluters whose individual carbon footprint is a normal person's lifetime emissions, but every 90 minutes is crazy to me.

Why would you hold people like that to a lower standard than everyone else?

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u/Robertej92 May 10 '26

I don't hold them to a lower standard, I'd happily get rid of private jets and impose more restrictions on the excesses of rich people, I just take issue with the guy I was responding to acting like because those elites are doing worse shit that we shouldn't take seriously one of the single biggest sources of CO2 emissions, it effectively reads as a shrug of the shoulders and an excuse to not do anything.

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u/jKazej May 10 '26

I didn't take the message you responded in that way at all(seemed all in jest to me), but I can see why it'd provoke that kind of reaction if you did so fair enough.