What I'm saying isn't that you should or shouldn't delete social media accounts. What I'm saying is that eventually they're all going to HAVE to do it to be able to operate within certain countries. The account deletion/boycott/etc isn't enough, you have to go after the political leaders that are FORCING companies into these deals cause governments are GOING to continue to go after companies to force the whole of the internet into surveilling users. Policy and laws need to be changed. The work HAS to be done.

You must never comply ESPECIALLY if you have nothing to hide. They are treating innocent people like terrorists and criminals and this is not acceptable.

I pray that the impetus from all this results in overturning all of the (allegedly) anti-terrorist legislation made post 9/11 (post 2000 in some cases).

They don't actually care about age verification, they just want the personal information.

ahem... politics is NOT pushing on tech..

tech is pushing and telling politics what to do. tech controls politics now

This is the way.

Words don't have meanings. Meanings have words.

Amazon the internet megastore allows non-employees of Amazon to add content to their store. Both as supposed vendors offering goods for services and as customers giving reviews and ratings to such store listings. And Amazon chooses what listings to show to users through opaque algorithms.

Can you give an example of the sort of regulation a social media site should need to follow which Amazon should be exempt from? Or the sort of rule that should bind reddit and Facebook but not Amazon?

Okay, I'm gonna ask: why is reddit not social media?

I define my dick to be broad. I declared it, and thus have manifested it into reality.

What other things should I will into existence with my new found powers?

So I kinda walked away from this to think about what's being said a bit and I just kinda have to disagree? Like, being clear and concise and accurate in defining something is hella important.... to the people that care about those things. The thing we see though isn't lacking definitions, especially in a legal sense, but people not pushing back enough whenever bad actors start bringing up terrible arguments. There are people out there that you can bring up the best, most logical points in the world and they will still twist and twist and twist until your original point is lost. We can make the most robust, perfect definitions and some people will STILL either find ways around it or completely ignore what was rationally established. The definition doesn't matter, the problem is fascists want to monitor the world and make whoever they want disappear and people kinda just let it happen.

And to be clear, I'm trying to say you're completely wrong. Defining things is important to establish a shared common framework of understanding and policy making and regulations are SO SO SO IMPORTANT cause they save lives in more than just one way, but problem isn't clear cut to be solved with "we need to define things better." We have a culture issue. Culture issues need more than one approach to resolve.

I disagree. By definition social media is "new media technology that facitilates the creation, sharing and aggregation of content amongst virtual communities and networks" so Reddit and Lemmy are social networks.

There are several subkinds of social networks some are worse for kids (and adults) than others. Most sites in the internet don't allow users to create and share content, online newspaper only may allow users to comment but the content comes from "journalists" and collaborators.

Discord is used like a forum though, with chat capabilities but it's social at it's core.

It's all the same for me. It doesn't matter, whether it's discord, games, reddit, lemmy, Mastodon, mbin, X, Facebook. It's all the same and also at the not the same.

But in the end it's all software. I hope that we can agree with. And this software is empowering people. And politics don't like that..

I vote for this guy for president.

I grew up with certain words meaning certain things. Then I get older, and suddenly, those words are gone, new words exist, old words mean new things, medical terms are now no longer medical terms and just purely an insult derived from a definition that didn't used to define the root word. Pluto isn't a planet. Instead of 9 planets, there are now an unknown number at least in the thousands. There's like 4 other Earths.

Language shouldn't change over time. It can adapt, but I should know that grass is green. Not grass is plubertatude. A word I just made up for the demonstration of absurdity. Nothing wrong with grass being green.