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Greece ban social media for under-15s from 2027, PM says (www.reuters.com)
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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I don't know how to feel about this. One one hand, fuck social media. On the other, kinda feels like stripping of freedom. But in this case, what is social media? Isn't this technically social media also?

I remember spending so much time on IRC and forums communicating with others online and learning a lot. It wasn't like this garbage Facebook crap of these days, though.

And how can it possibly be enforced without privacy invasive age verification techniques? Or government owned firewalls filtering and monitoring all traffic?

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    • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Come on Canada, let’s follow this path!

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The problem is not the young using social media. The problem is the ultra addictive algorithms that power the social media.

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    • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Really really shortsighted idea ughh.

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    This is very good actually. This cannot be done on an individual level without alienating your children from their folk, who will still be using social media. And you obviously can't expect greedy corporations to just stop destroying the civilization for profit.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It's not good, because the method of enforcement is trusting tech companies to ethically use and store PII.

    This is an attack on privacy masquerading as "Think of the children!"

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    This one actually works a bit differently. Parents will need to install an app called Kids Wallet which will provide some kind of an API to the digital services to verify their age without revealing any other credentials to the platform. And the birth data will come directly from the Greek civil registry.

    According to Euractiv, the wallet app will use the Greek digital ID of a parent or guardian, validated by TaxisNet, the country’s national authorization service. In this way, parents can use their digital ID app to request age assurance to validate the child’s identity using date of birth data from the Greek civil registry. The government says third-party applications could retrieve the child’s age via API with parental consent.

    https://www.biometricupdate.com/202503/greeces-kids-wallet-for-age-assurance-gets-parental-consent-to-access-civil-registry

    I am not an advocate for age verification laws. Quite the contrary as I believe they create a slippery slope, as at the end of the day someone has to decide that is considered "inappropriate" for children and the definition of that keeps shifting based on how is on power.

    Still though, it is a lot less worse than what many US states are doing, where everyone is supposed to upload a government ID and go through KYC.

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