Proton has activists' identities at stake, of course they're doing their best to defend them

Basically don't allow ads for kids and only show social media posts from their friends in chronological order instead of any fancy algorithm. Also make them liable for showing scams to minors. That kills most profit.

I think you’re correct in both aspects for sure. Parents are certainly less involved, for the most part, in informing their kids of literally anything. It is much easier to ‘offload any and all responsibilities’ as you put it. iPad kids are a good example of this. Handing a 2yr old a video device and walking away is not parenting. This is an issue with many many topics from internet safety, to general life things, to talks about their bodies. Parents do not want to parent.

I’d also agree, largely, the parents just don’t know, or care. Privacy is, unfortunately, a niche thing to know and care about.

I see this as more like the patriot act- gover ent and big tech are pushing to elevate concerns of "the children's safety" to violate our privacy and sell data. Same way the patriot act is so you can "keep all the evil bad man terrorists" at bay but really it's an excuse to violate our rights "legally" in the name of "safety".

There's two ways to view what you just said there. Parents aren't parenting, but you can't speak for someone elses emotions about it. And it's more constructive to a problem (rather than adding to it) to ask why, to figure out what's happening, with compassion, so as to help it be repaired.

Here's another example, drug addicts, quite often you will hear people judging and shaming their behaviours, without asking why, or looking at their choices with compassion and an eye to repair the problems for them. Most often, very very abused children, grow up to self medicate their internal agony, caused by what they've lived through. You wouldn't then choose locking them up in jail to help repair.

You're talking about kids, maybe some of them go on to be these same drug addicts.

I would suggest this whole problem with the unsupervised parenting / disconnected parenting is capitalism. And it's by design.

People have kids (mostly) because they want them, they love them. I would argue very few would want to be parenting poorly. So why are they?

Could it be that there's no opportunity to stay home and raise kids. Raising kids, is work, and it is hard work, has been so hugely devalued, intentionally, so as to be able to remove it as needing space in people's lives. Who thinks it's admirable to stay home and raise kids? That is an opinion that has been societally planted, to serve the bourgeois.

Actual paid work, who can live without working? Multiple jobs, even. That's also by design.

Capitalism also designed this system we are all currently using, of a family in a singular home. It wasn't like that, previously. So no village, no desperately needed support for raising kids.

Jobs burn you out, we aren't designed to live like this, but there's little to no flexibility, and parenting burns you out, and theres little to no support for that, now. Who has energy left after that, to also find all the ways in which tech is attacking this week.

I would argue, partially, the solve for poor parenting, would be to start rolling out some guillotines.

But also, raising a kid is supposed to be the job of a village, I'm sure you've heard that. To be a good parent, you need a full tank, but all the avenues for refilling your tank have been removed.

We should all care about fixing this, it is our next generation. I don't believe hating on the singular parents trapped in this hellhole, is the answer.

I have siblings like that. Literally never seen them parent. I've changed more of their kids' diapers than I have seen them do, and I have no kids. It's kind of irritating in an understatement kind of way. My poor niblings

It seems like a pretty common thing for people to expect that the luxuries of modern technology include not having to do anything you don't want to, including being present for your own life.

People make self-destructive choices every day. (insert "always have been" 🌏🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀)

Finally all my friends that been giving me shit about having a dvd collection can eat shit.

The next step will be to make more essential services online only, so people have to use the internet.

Exactly, well go a step back, communities will thrive.

My mother in law got me essentially the bible of DIY gardens for the Flemish region. I learned that there are differences just in tool styles an hour drive away from eachother already.

I could read that for a years and still learn things!

Harder to organize protests though. Like if they implement a new renter’s/homeowner tax, or sales tax, or whatever, that means we’d have to sell our books to make ends meet. And then make “digitally inciting” protests illegal too maybe so you don’t feel comfortable even discussing it on your devices. (Not that our opsec today is sufficient, wager it’s not for like 95+% of us, but this feels yet worse)

Scary stuff

Yes, have a look at reticulum. No centralized addressing authority. No centralized domain naming system. Everything is globally routeable. It also just got support for transferring HTTP with RServer and MeshBrowser.

Yeah, we ( you guys ) should fork the internet.

There's Meshtastic and the like ( I think ) but then again what we'll build there? Another fediverse ? I don't see the difference with what I have now.

What can I, as a regular guy, do to help make this happen?

While Meshtastic is great, I believe Reticulum has a more suitable approach for this: https://reticulum.network/

Wifi HaLow is a bit closer to capable of early 00s internet speeds while reaching 1km, meshtastic and mescore reach 100x further and are good enough for text but not really capable of any media.

More people need to adopt both, here's hoping.

"Age Verification" is just them attaching "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" to their push to have every single bit of information about every person on the planet.

Social media functions as a kind of gatekeeper for public interactions, not unlike credit scores, driver's licenses, and college degrees. The absence of a presence on social media is not only socially debilitating (you're cut out of the information stream for local events and public amenities) but a red-flag for college recruiters and employers. It's much like how not using a credit card regularly in your teens/20s impacts your ability to access low-interest lending in your 30s/40s. Or not having a driver's license interferes with your right to vote.

State officials have been searching for a kind of uniform, iron-clad, easily verifiable public ID for ages. Linking your online presence (a thing that you need for a myriad of daily tasks) to your ID becomes a pathway to this goal. Universal, non-transferable digital ID becomes a wicked two-edged sword as it both exhaustively tracks the "documented" individuals and neatly severs the "undocumented" from society.

99.9% navigate the system and grow up perfectly fine, or fine enough. We shouldn't have to completely surrender our anonymity for the tiny percentage that went wrong.

Before the Internet, some people got weird, and in the Internet era, some people are going to go weird. Age verification isn't going to change that.

This isn't about the kids. We all know it.

I am readying myselft for the end of internet since years. I guess we are at the end of the dead internet theory where they have to ID humans to be able to differentiate them from bots and be able yo target them more specifically.

I'm gonna give credit to Lightning Hopkins a hell of a lot earlier than I do Kaczynski

I'm working on ways it right now. Aliexpress wants me to do a face check for some items. I've been a customer long enough to have been born and become a legal adult as a customer!

They don't want my face for verification. It's an excuse to feed their AI, which is already scary good at voice.