The mandatory age sniffing will soon start as well.
After all, the government wants to watch everyone, to verify your age now. Gone are the days of anonymity - they want to know your every move.
UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s
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#12Huge win for surveillance capitalism. If Agentic AI is the future of online interaction, shopping, etc., a signal of "this is a verified human being" is golden to advertisers.
It's also a huge win for children's future and cognition.
Both of these things can be true. We need to figure out how to navigate this new reality and no action was getting really dangerous.
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#13> “Children will be given back their childhoods,” As a parent, I completely agree. We need to protect children from the dangers of the completely uncontrolled "jungle" of social media. But above all, we need to give children back the right to experience a true, real childhood, made up of true friends, fresh air, friendships, and real relationships!
And that law ensures this? Really?
Reminds me of the prohibition era.
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#14> “Children will be given back their childhoods,” As a parent, I completely agree. We need to protect children from the dangers of the completely uncontrolled "jungle" of social media. But above all, we need to give children back the right to experience a true, real childhood, made up of true friends, fresh air, friendships, and real relationships!
> As a parent, I completely agree.
What's stopping you from doing this so far? Handing a child a smartphone is a decision parents can make, withholding access to a smartphone is also a decision parents can make.
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#15Feels heavy handed, but the brain-rot seems to be quite real, so I don't see a better option.
A significant part of the brain rot involves full adults. Elon Musk is openly advocating riots in Northern Ireland; several people have been firebombed out of their houses.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/belfast-riot...
Targeting kids is a distraction from making the difficult choice of confronting powerful adults.
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#16Feels heavy handed, but the brain-rot seems to be quite real, so I don't see a better option.
Parents taking responsibility for what their children can see and do on their devices is an option. Maybe free classes for tech-illiterate parents? There are options that don't involve forcing everybody to prove their age and provide ID verification to access social media
Parents do not have infinite resources to 'take responsibility'. I do not think that is a practicable option, let alone a serious or optimal one.
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#17Feels heavy handed, but the brain-rot seems to be quite real, so I don't see a better option.
Parents taking responsibility for what their children can see and do on their devices is an option. Maybe free classes for tech-illiterate parents? There are options that don't involve forcing everybody to prove their age and provide ID verification to access social media
> There are options that don't involve forcing everybody to prove their age and provide ID verification to access social media
Indeed. Assuming this is the real goal. That would require of people to trust the government. I in general trust no government.
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#18Feels heavy handed, but the brain-rot seems to be quite real, so I don't see a better option.
Parents taking responsibility for what their children can see and do on their devices is an option. Maybe free classes for tech-illiterate parents? There are options that don't involve forcing everybody to prove their age and provide ID verification to access social media
Not when big tech is doing everything they can to bring harmful content to kids while pretending to sincerely offer guardrails.
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#19Huge win for surveillance capitalism. If Agentic AI is the future of online interaction, shopping, etc., a signal of "this is a verified human being" is golden to advertisers.
It's also a huge win for children's future and cognition. Both of these things can be true. We need to figure out how to navigate this new reality and no action was getting really dangerous.
Parents have the choice of handing smartphones to their children. If cognition and future is that important, surely a parent wouldn't wait for government intervention
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#20> “Children will be given back their childhoods,” As a parent, I completely agree. We need to protect children from the dangers of the completely uncontrolled "jungle" of social media. But above all, we need to give children back the right to experience a true, real childhood, made up of true friends, fresh air, friendships, and real relationships!
Have you not discovered piehole or child controls? My kids stuff is completely locked down it was not hard. I don't need the state to be involved.