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- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 1 week ago:
allowing your kid
Well, I don’t have children myself. If I did, I would be able to observe their development and decide for myself which aspects of adult life they are developmentally ready for, and which not; including whether they should have unsupervised access to the Internet. The government doesn’t need to be involved in that.
the liberal consumption of alcohol and possibly periphenalia of the illegal and damaging sort and the occasional violence committed by and against the customers, while also leaving them in the company of uninhibited individuals not quite sound of mind
All of those things have nothing to do with access to information, which is what my argument is limited to. I do think it makes sense to have minimum ages for the consumption of alcohol and other drugs in order to prevent young brains from being damaged or becoming physically addicted. Looking at nudity isn’t by itself damaging or physically addictive; those other things are.
- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 1 week ago:
OK, that is probably true. But that wasn’t the talking point in the original article. The vast majority of online interactions, no matter where, are not abuse or exploitation.
Ultimately, the Internet is meant to be a worldwide communication medium that allows everyone to communicate with everyone. That’s literally its central purpose. If parents think their children aren’t developmentally ready to communicate with a wide variety of people, they shouldn’t be giving them access to a communication medium whose entire purpose is to enable them to do so.
- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 1 week ago:
Honestly, I wouldn’t see much of a problem with this either. I found it utterly stupid when I was a minor that there were (supposed to be) restrictions on what information I could access, and now that I’ve been an adult for a while, I don’t find it any less stupid and wonder what the big deal would have been.
But whatever the justification for restricting this is, how is it “abuse and exploitation” to let people do the things they actively want to do? Abuse and exploitation are generally things people want not to happen in their lives.
- Comment on European Commission's proposed EU Kids Act could see online games forced to enact stricter age verification amid new rules around accounts for under 15s 1 week ago:
while protecting them from abuse and exploitation
I don’t even remotely understand this talking point. Like, seriously, I wonder if these people live on the same planet as I do. How is it “abuse and exploitation” to allow someone, of any age, to access something they actively want to access?
- Comment on Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world 1 week ago:
“Algorithm” is a term from computer science that doesn’t inherently have anything to do with social media or content recommendations. Those things are examples of algorithms, but far from the only ones.
- Comment on Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world 1 week ago:
in an algorithm-free world
What do these people think the word “algorithm” means? Something something dihydrogen monoxide.
- Comment on Lego Skylines' devs want your city's problems to be visible without digging into a stats screen, which means finding a "family friendly" version of showing homelessness 3 weeks ago:
Huh I guess that really makes me think
- Comment on Lego Skylines' devs want your city's problems to be visible without digging into a stats screen, which means finding a "family friendly" version of showing homelessness 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing Cities: Skylines for more than ten years and never noticed it had a homelessness mechanic.
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- Even Some Of The Loudest Kids’ Online Safety Advocates Are Now Warning Against Social Media Banswww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 3 comments
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- Comment on Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images 1 month ago:
Nor to me - but it doesn’t make a lot of sense with images either.
Text is literally just an array of numbers (Unicode character points); where do you put “invisible” watermarks there? Images are, likewise, a three-dimensional array of pixel color values; while it’s possible to very slightly vary those color values and call that “watermarking” (similar concept: steganography), how does that not get lost even unintentionally on the first lossy compression step?!
- Comment on Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images 1 month ago:
You know, the evil bit used to be a joke, now people unironically suggest equivalent things…
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- Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phonearstechnica.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 19 comments
- Comment on Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination 2 months ago:
exposing small children to AI-generated things? I seriously wonder about the effects of that on their brains…
- Comment on Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination 2 months ago:
You could spend an entire lifetime reading existing bedtime stories from your local library.
or even from the Internet, fwiw, there are plenty of public domain fairy tales available there…
- Comment on AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk 2 months ago:
Depends on what kind of editing, really. Brightening, cropping, rotating, etc. an image is part of the art creation process; adding or removing objects is falsifying reality. Doesn’t matter if AI is involved or not.
- Comment on France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site 2 months ago:
No, that’s not, or at least shouldn’t be and used to not be, “how you do things”. Blocking websites because they aren’t complying with national laws used to be the domain of authoritarian countries like the PRC or Thailand or Russia. Now it’s “how you do things” in so called liberal democracies? Has that really become so normalized?
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- Comment on progreso de Esperanta simbolo sur canvas 2026 2 months ago:
iu (ne mi) iomete ŝanĝis la stelon, nun ĝi aspektas tiel ĉi: Image
- Comment on progreso de Esperanta simbolo sur canvas 2026 2 months ago:
iu parte detruis ĝin, jen la restarigita aktuala versio:
- Comment on progreso de Esperanta simbolo sur canvas 2026 2 months ago:
aktuala stato:
- Comment on progreso de Esperanta simbolo sur canvas 2026 2 months ago:
Mi ankoraŭ plilarĝigis la finan literon de la teksto por pliklarigi tion, ke la flago kaj la teksto estas rilataj.
