Carrolade
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- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 2 weeks ago:
Sure. The problem is we’re too decentralized to make enforcement practical. They can try to come for, say, lemmy.world if they want, that’s totally fine. That won’t get them to get very far with all of Lemmy though. Too many servers can be housed in places where western law cannot easily reach, and regulating just those servers located in western countries accomplishes very little.
Advantages of being structured differently.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 2 weeks ago:
Y’know, it just occured to me, but this push towards child safety opens up another opportunity for Lemmy to grow at the expense of reddit. If reddit puts in age verification, the kids will still need somewhere to go to get answers to stuff like video game questions and random tech support problems. They won’t be able to use major platforms though, they’re going to be effectively banned from those. They can’t be banned from all of our servers though, that’s just impractical. So, they could potentially ask their questions and get answers here if they wanted, assuming we’re good enough at providing answers.
- Comment on World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops 3 months ago:
I was a little suspicious at first too, but no, appears legit.
- Comment on US | The Good, The Bad, And The Incredibly Stupid In Trump’s AI Action Plan 7 months ago:
Informative article. Also liked this earlier one that was linked within this article, going into the challenges of different ways to secure artists livlihoods:
- Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok? 1 year ago:
The shorts format specifically is extra dangerous, it’s sort of the fentanyl to youtube’s heroin. Their specific algorithm is also unusually effective.
It’s true that any other social media that successfully copies tiktok’s methods would become just as bad from a health perspective.
- Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok? 1 year ago:
What, you mean an app engineered to turn information into an addictive drug that tries to keep users hooked regardless of whether that is any good for them or not, in the interest of maximized revenues, might not be an exercise of genuinely “free” speech?
Huh, weird.