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Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn (www.politico.eu)
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Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

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[–] 30 points 8 months ago (12 children)

I wish parents would just step up and take responsibility for their own children instead of making the rest of society deal with it

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Why has it suddenly become a problem now, 35 years after the advent of the web, and 43 years after the advent of the modern internet? This isn't about kids.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Because it takes time to realize the effects of new technologies. Doubly so when money is preventing research into those effects. Its not a conspiracy.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Sadly, not enough do, they prefer someone else be to blame, my gfs eldest daughter does do this with her son. Limited screen time, monitored PC in the family room with the screen visible. When she finally lets him run fully free online he will be mature enough to deal with the bs out there, we hope. If more parents did this the "Protect the Children" fallacy would be taken for what it is, surveillance, data mining, and control.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think parents, most of who have a job and don't keep their kids under surveillance 24/7, can hope to compete with dozens of corporations with whole teams dedicated to making their platform addictive. I view the parental responsibility in the same way I view carbon footprints: a way to shift blame from corporations to individuals. I think this view also leads to individual-focused solutions that surveil people (age checks, etc) rather than systemic ones that regulate corporations.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Agreed. They need to direct their ire toward the corporations instead of my (and everyone else's) freedoms.

    I said this somewhere else, but I was just being facetious. I think it's funny to turn the conservative mentality against conservative movements lol

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