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Blaze ( Blaze@piefed.zip )  to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 7 months ago

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

www.theguardian.com

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The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz

www.theguardian.com

Blaze ( Blaze@piefed.zip )  to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 7 months ago
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Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
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  • melsaskca ( melsaskca@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Let’s stop the global elite from fucking them first. How about that?

    • higgsboson ( higgsboson@piefed.social ) 
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      What a weird false dichotomy. A planet with well over 7 Billion people can do at least two things at once.

      edit: Not that I support age checks on social media, in any way. That is a bad idea for myriad reasons. For-profit corporate social media is probably the worst technological development since nukes… mutually assured distraction.

      • bitcrafter ( bitcrafter@programming.dev ) 
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        What a weird false dichotomy. A planet with well over 7 Billion people can do at least two things at once.

        You are correct in general, but one cannot do two things at once when the first thing is (at least, arguably) a necessary prerequisite to the second thing.

      • hector ( hector@lemmy.today ) 
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        False dickotomy I’m sure you mean.

      • melsaskca ( melsaskca@lemmy.ca ) 
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        That’s your takeaway?

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    “The world” (lawmakers, politicians, big tech, military, intelligence agencies) doesn’t give 2 shits about children, they want control of the internet.

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    Maybe we should figure out what is so awful about social media that we think children shouldn’t be subjected to it, and ask if it’s any less bad for adults. Idk

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    How about instead of banning kids from social media we ban the degenerates actively grooming into joining unnatural subcultures from social media.

    You know … like Turning Point USA, PragerU, and the various “alpha male” / incel influencers.

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