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Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online

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Re: Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online

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People love these proposals until they read the details and think of the consequences. Anything that requires "robust age-checks" means that everyone using the site must go through an ID check and validation process. No more viewing anything without first logging in via your ID-checked account > 1. Carry out robust age-checks to stop children accessing harmful content > Our draft Codes expect much greater use of high…

The so-called "tech" companies love to tell the world, especially their advertiser customers, how they know "everything" about the people who use their websites, with ridicuouls claims such as knowing more about users than users' own friends and family. Certainly the knowledge they claim to have would include the age. If not, then any claims by so-called "tech" companies that they can serve targeted advertising to pe…

wouldn't they have to guarantee no false positives ever? so any child being misidentified as an adult would be a problem. the result would be that the targeting is so strict that to many adults would be excluded. and that matters even more if we consider that young adults are among the most lucrative demographic, which makes false positives more likely.

you can easily tell a 30 year old from a 10 year old. but can you tell a 12 year old from a 15 year old? or a 15yr old from a 20yr old?

so tech companies want a system that is approved so that they are not responsible if it fails

Re: Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online

#122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet is a big place. How am I supposed to manage what Google / Facebook / YouTube etc. serves to my daughter?

Are you also leaving your daughter unattended in a big city at a McDonald's alone and just go about your business, expecting them to take care of her?

yes, see the discussion on free-range kids

Re: Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online

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I have a better solution : tech firms must stop using toxic algorithms for everyone, not just childrens. Why are they allowed to use these practices in the first place ? Why do we have to endure/tolerate this stuff that makes internet a worse place ?
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