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Don’t we geofence sale of alcohol and tobacco around schools?
You want every (any?) app knowing your exact location at all times? That's not how we "geofence" the sale of physical goods.
Some readers here presumably work at Snap. How do you feel about this and your work? Do you sleep soundly at night?
I have some support to the Trust&Safety team at the same period of the whole debate about the section 230; and from what I can tell Snap has some flagging mechanisms quite good related with people selling firearms, drugs and especially puberty blockers.
The thing that I can say is that a lot of parents are sleeping at the wheel with teenagers and not following what is going on with their child.
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Yes, I make my kid wear a helmet. I make sure his bindings are set properly. I make sure he's dressed warmly. I make sure he's fed and hydrated. I am the parent. The ski resort provides the mountain, the snow, and the lifts. He's a bit too young to be interested in taking pictures of his wang but I'd like to think this is a topic I can handle. Teaching him to navigate a dangerous world is sort of my job. I'm not losi…
This is about societal level harm. Sure, you do everything right, but most people don't. I also do everything correctly, but one time a drunk driver still almost killed me.
(Since the TikTok post was swapped out with this one, I'll repost my late comment here, since it applies to a lot of companies.) > As one internal report put it: [...damning effects...] I recall hearing of related embarrassing internal reports from Facebook. And, earlier, the internal reports from big tobacco and big oil, showing they knew the harms, but chose to publicly lie instead, for greater profit. My question…
My team at Facebook in the 2010s made many such reports. We did that work because our mandate was to understand the users and how to serve them. We did that with full good natured ethical intent. We turned the findings in to project proposals and MVPs. The ones that were revenue negative were killed by leadership after all that work, repeat cycle.
Or was it not as conscious, more an accident of following industry conventions for corporate roles, and corporate inefficiency&miscommunication?
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>> How is all this not heavily regulated? It isn’t properly regulated because the CEO’s and founders just moan that it isn’t possible to regulate so much user generated content. I’m of the opinion that, in that case, their sites shouldn’t exist but people seem to have convinced themselves that Facebook et al provide too much value to stand up to.
> CEO’s and founders just moan that it isn’t possible to regulate Surely if a CEO with a billion dollar budget can’t regulate it, neither can a parent?
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Confiscate the hell out of it. That's what parenting is for. How much money is a kid going to spend on burner phones before deciding to just stop bringing them to the house?
> Confiscate the hell out of it. People in prisons manage to conceal contraband (including cell phones) in their cells, and they have substantially fewer hiding spots. Turning your house into a prison with random room tossings has consequences, too.
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Yes. A large fraction of Snapchat's users are significantly harmed. First hand, I see it all the time in students. There's an extreme unhealthy obsession with social media that leads to serious inferiority complexes and depression. All of this wrapped in algorithms that compel people to participate in various ways, from streaks to points, etc. Quantitatively, everything from anxiety to depression to suicide has more…
> Social media is black mirror, and we're doing it to ourselves. You mean black mirror is a pessimistic exaggeration on the state of society and technology. It’s not the other way around. What you’re observing is not profound, it’s literally how the writers approach their process for the show. In fact, you’re doing this weird thing where you make it seem like black mirror was prophetic and it came before all the obse…
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> We can always take the phone away. Kids are… resourceful. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-goes-viral-for-tweeting-fr... Last week, a 15-year-old girl named Dorothy looked at the smart fridge in her kitchen and decided to try and talk to it: "I do not know if this is going to tweet I am talking to my fridge what the heck my Mom confiscated all of my electronics again." Sure enough, it worked. The message Dorothy s…
I ran a secret Ethernet cable to the router to circumvent parental Internet restrictions, that was in the early 2000s. Teenagers will be teenagers.
I took the mobo, CPU, RAM, hard drive and PSU out of the case, put them in my backpack and went to my friends house. He never noticed.
That said, I still couldn't use the PC when I was at home. Physically taking away the machine wasn't really the punishment.
This would apply to cell phones and such too. Sure they might figure out some workaround that works sometimes, but it won't be the same.
Each generation of parents fails on something. This generation is failing at recognizing the dangers of social media. Teenagers and even children are being radicalized on-line, sold dangerous diets, manipulated by state sponsored creators, lied by companies, taught anti-science, and the list goes on and on. How is all this not heavily regulated? Even adults need protection from scammers, fake products, misleading ads…
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A cell phone is available 168 hours a week. A friend's phone might be available, say, 10% of that?
Friend gets a new phone, gives you the old one. Neighbor has open wifi. Hide it deep in the giant pile of laundry in your bedroom. Whack-a-mole is fun at an arcade. It's not fun when it's your kids.
The goal of parenting is to raise good kids. Unfortunately, it's not always going to be fun.