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California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • "Guns don't kill people, people kill people!"
  • "Reduce, Recycle, Reuse."
  • "Only you can prevent forrest fires."
  • "Be All You Can Be in the Army!"
  • "Parenting!"

Shift all the blame. Guns? America? Fuck that, it's the individual, not the industry.

The internet is always two things. The web, access to information on all levels (good or bad ), should be available. It needs to be regulated bc META and anything Elon is apart of, still exist.

Parents are fighting, "literally everything" ! We as a species, is losing to whatever the "internet" is. We need real regulation.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Ear me out: make tools for parents to restrict their child themselves instead of restricting everyone and rob data

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

    And the worse part, we DO have tools for parents. Either they don't know these tools exist or they don't know how to use them. Mostly because they're tech-illiterate. Kudos to the parents who educate themselves.

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

    This is a benign example, but I was talking with a fellow parent about our dislike of Paw Patrol and told them I had to remove that as an option in Netflix. They were shocked that was possible and I could see the gears turning in their head with that new info. Granted I'm not parenting a teenager yet, but it seems like most of the functionality in bigger platforms generally exists, people just don't know it's there and to set it.

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

    Hmm I guess I'm not paying enough attention. What's wrong with paw patrol?

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

    paw patrol is just so over stimulating with frequent cuts and it's clearly designed to hook kids short attention spans / does not help develop longer attention spans. It's a classic problem that kids don't want to stop watching and have tantrums if you enforce screen time and turn it off. All of this to sell huge toys that kids think they want and will play with one time.

    Also the stories are not really that great, and suck to watch as a parent. They always introduce an issue which is immediately resolved, triggering that instant gratification in your kids brain, without teaching them about conflict resolution or anything really useful. This isn't even about the idea of Adventure Bay being a police state or promoting the privatization of communal services.

    It's an unfair comparison, but a show like Bluey has great storytelling and while not being purely educational, teaches kids how to emphasize with others and deal with conflict that isn't easily solvable, even for adults. The music, illustrations, and stories are a work of art and a more valuable use of time than Paw Patrol.

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

    It's already available and parents are not utilizing it.

    But I also don't see the problem with this. As long as there's savvy and smart children that did get educated on safety, the knowledge can propagate to those that did not.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    It’s already available and parents are not utilizing it.

    The parents have determined that it's not needed. They've determined that trying to strictly regulate exactly what Little Johnny can and can't see online does him far more harm than porn ever could. This hyper-authoritarian nonsense needs to die in a fire.

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

    We as a species, is losing to whatever the “internet” is. We need real regulation.

    And none of that regulation will have anything to do with age, if you want real effectiveness. A teenager seeing a dick and a dick, a vagina and a vagina, or a dick and a vagina, being mashed together isn't concerning in the big picture. The stuff that is worrying about the internet affects adults just as much as children, like social media.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    You missed the point completely. My example was Meta and Elon's companies not teens fucking.

    Age verification is pointless. The post I responded to, was talking about it is the parent's (individuals) job not the government's (regulation). That would be wrong.

    And none of that regulation will have anything to do with age, if you want real effectiveness.

    That is an extreme view and I believe a dangerous one. Regulation like not experimenting on teen females which caused some to take their life. That seems pretty age related.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/facebooks-dangerous-experiment-teen-girls/620767/

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