djmikeale

@djmikeale@feddit.dk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha fair point. Don’t know if you have kids but I do - Kids are extremely impressionable. So even without social media, but just online videos, some kids (luckily not my kid) go fucking crazy when you say “no more Minecraft videos”. And I know there’s a lot of parents that don’t take that battle, or that simply just don’t know their young teens aren’t sleeping but instead scrolling tiktok underneath their covers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the thoughts you put into the comment!

  I think I have a few comments that’s both for and against:

  • it’s all about implementation: I’d hope for a token-based “I’m-an-adult” system - you’d be able to confirm age without vendor getting any other info than “this person is of age”, and with the government just knowing “you used a token somewhere” but the cynic in me tells a lot of places will use"protect the kids" as a pretext for more surveillance and implement it in shitty ways
  • we’re being spied on anyways - this story is about high-level spying, but as far as I remember, they had access to all internet traffic
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  so they shouldn’t do the ban? While we’re at it, perhaps let’s also allow gambling and purchasing alcohol for minors as well ;)