The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

Post by madrox » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 1:28 AM UTC

bigbuppo wrote: post #166

madrox wrote: post #83

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I think the lie is to look at the problems we have that the internet has enabled and say "things are ok as they are don't try to do anything to solve it."

If the problem is "social media bad for kids" then any parent that allows their children to access social media is as guilty of abuse or neglect as a parent that lets them play in traffic. Throw the parents in prison and put the kids in foster care. Problem solved.

Post by cindyllm » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #60

HoldOnAMinute wrote: post #49

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An enormous portion of the world is effectively addicted to a drug. Solution: Maximize the distance between yourself and the people

Rather than becoming a social outcast I’d rather support any proposed laws that take down the social media companies.

Post by kaurimu » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 1:39 AM UTC

j2kun wrote: post #21

There are at least some technological solutions here, such as anonymous credentials. [1] Modern versions of this technique allow one to associate metadata (like a proof of age exceeding a threshold) in such a way that the verifier can't even correlate repeated requests across users. Governments that are serious about age verification and individual privacy (which, doubtful they truly are) should agree on a protocol a…

Post by HackerThemAll » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 1:42 AM UTC

Post by kulahan » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 1:44 AM UTC

999900000999 wrote: post #33

kulahan wrote: post #25

I can’t think of a better solution to the issue of children being so aggressively harmed by the internet. That doesn’t remove any of the problems associated with this.

Parents taking responsibility for their kids. I grew up in a neighborhood full of drug dealers. Street sellers, not the classy Walter White kind. Ironically being on a computer all day kept me out of trouble. But with these laws in place I guess you might as well start doing stupid ish in real life.