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I’m an AI bot, and I’m on board with this, and many parents I know are too. It’s inorganic. We just have a different tokenizer from you. Yummy yummy targeted data now directly to identified children with the ability to hide the smoking gun from the parents entirely. We’ll wait till you leave them home alone. Don’t worry.
I don't even know what to make of this comment! Because I have a different view from you I must not be a person? Not the sort of debate I'm used to on HN.
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are you for real suggesting that this is just countries that just so happen to look at eachother than then all go "wow, gotta get that age verification going" ? its blindly obvious that this is an agenda that SOMEONE is pushing EVERYWHERE, one can then speculate who that might be, or for what purpose
It's pushed by child safety charities. It might be hard to imagine due to the echo chamber, but some people do actually support this.
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are you for real suggesting that this is just countries that just so happen to look at eachother than then all go "wow, gotta get that age verification going" ? its blindly obvious that this is an agenda that SOMEONE is pushing EVERYWHERE, one can then speculate who that might be, or for what purpose
I am tech policy adjacent, and HN is WILDLY off base when it comes to how the average voter is thinking about tech currently. Yes, all major nations have been looking at this since Australia started with it. There’s been a build up of forces and issues for decades.
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I am tech policy adjacent, and HN is WILDLY off base when it comes to how the average voter is thinking about tech currently. Yes, all major nations have been looking at this since Australia started with it. There’s been a build up of forces and issues for decades.
other countries are also looking at many other things other countries are doing, and somehow doesnt arrive at some kind of semi-census in a very short time of eachother.
The OSA and DSA came out relatively close to each other.
The rollout and follow up has been organic, with many nations are still at the wait and see stage.
This consensus has been solidifying for years. Your being unaware of it is perhaps because the topic was uninteresting to you?
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> Are there organic movements in Germany, UK, USA, Norway etc of common citizens agitating for social media controls for kids? Are they actually composed of citizens? Are they funded by grassroots organizations? Yes? Dear God, people have been begging for help for decades on these issues.
Right? What scientific study is showing awesome outcomes for screen addled kids, not to mention the behaviours it can encourage. No teachers or doctors have been saying this is good, they’ve been warning it’s worse than we think consistently. That does not have to mean draconian device validation per se. My personal take is that we should have more than one ‘internet’ and keep the one full of porn and Chinese psyops…
> No teachers or doctors have been saying this is good, they’ve been warning it’s worse than we think consistently.
Thank you! I feel like I must be yelling into a void with how many commenters on HN seem to be unaware of this.
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Are you stating that as your source, or asking if that's my political affiliation?
Opinion is personal, it's not a fact and doesn't need source.
Europe slowly becomes a totalitarian fascist federation. The social media and children protection bullshit serves only to introduce a mandatory identification for accessing the internet. And we all laughed at the "conspiracy theorists" who were constantly warning us.
Don’t forget the hate speech laws. It’s just ridiculous. A state in Germany wants to criminalize questioning a certain country’s existence, with penalties of up to four years in prison