As someone who was a teenager when the internet became a thing, I agree there should be a debate on the topic. Because as I see it, our brains got broken differently after the internet.
There is a healthy way to approach this. There is a minimum age for social media. Buuuut… I’m not the one who should be saying what that is.
the problem here is that all politicians are reallty after is “age verification” which is just an excuse to deannonymize the intenet and track everyone
That’s exactly it. It has nothing to do with protecting children, it’s sole purpose is to get rid of any semblance of privacy
It’s also to de-platform an silence them.
Uh yeah…
That’s what all parents want. 😆For sure, I think that is more akin secondary consideration in their eyes, however.
Stupid as fuck
I’m still confused as to how this has anything to do with the population at large. Monitor your fucking kids.
Seriously, just be an actual parent to your children and let adults be able to enjoy things without everything being censored to shit because you use the internet as a babysitter.
“Monitor your kids” hasn’t really been good enough and now we are seeing literal cognitive decline due to social media use in youth. I agree that global age verification is a privacy violation, but there ARE genuine problems with unrestricted social media use for youth.
Websites who can’t handle the data without getting hacked should not be asking for my government ID.
Stop preying on kids you degenerate pedos
Really hate the way the internet is moving and the increasing control governments are enforcing and reaching for.
Why I am moving to Mastodon (sorta I don’t use it much), Lemmy (yes I know it is part of Mastodon), I want to move to peertube but that is a hard thing at least that is how I am finding it. My computers are raspberry pis so I do not use MacOS or Windows, sadly I still use an iPad and iPhone as I do not have the money to change them yet. I hide as much about myself from the ad market with piholes and single use email addresses with my own domain. I have a VPN back to my LAN so that when I am away I still get all the ad blocking. I realize that this is blocking the ad market and not the government, but I am going to make it as hard as possible for governments to check me and my internet habits out as hard as possible.
So, mass surveillance for everyone under the guise of “think of the children!” while billionaires are trafficking and raping them.
While I agree kids should not have Facebook or IG, I don’t really think it’s up to the government to decide. Parent your kids.
Does this mean going back to a BBS and FidoNet?
Even if they somehow implement this in an anonymous way (let’s be real, it’s the government), it would have to be through government services and a lot of people that use social media, specifically Indigenous people, well, let’s just say, do not trust the government. So, if this is implemented in a mature, reasonable way without any involvement from the private sector; you are still excluding a significant portion of the populace just by having the government involved.
This should never have even been brought up. It’s idiotic.
Age verification not mentioned. Wake me up when it is.
I wonder how its all being coordinated, is it large tech companies pushing it I assume?
I doubt it, big tech doesn’t really benefit from this as far as I know. I think it’s based on public outrage.
Good but unenforceable.
The minimum age for social media should be 105…
Change my mind.
