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Nuno Gomes@Tutanota Just a note. Age verification is not mutually exclusive to everything that is on the safer column. If the real world has age requirements in some operations, it's acceptable that the digital world also has the same. Making the Internet lawless is what drives attacks on other liberties.
Azarilhⓥ@gonun13 You block legal porn sites, people will get to illegal porn sites full of potential malware. Or simply to torrents.
Age verification online solves absolutely nothing. Better education is the solution.
On the other hand, blocking social media is a double edged sword. 1: It might keep children safe from toxic behaviour; but they won't learn to recognise such behaviours once they are adults. But i guess once you are an adult you don't matter anymore? Hence, education is the solution.
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@Azarilh I agree Education is key and blocking is a double edged sword.
But the current ecosystem is causing a complete brain rot of an entire generation fueled by big corps and authoritarian regimes. Thus we need to start gatekeeping and moderating some usages or at least creating digital safe networks where devices handled by minors can connect freely. Children should be allowed to grow naturally and not jump start to all the crazy shit adults like to sell.
But the current ecosystem is causing a complete brain rot of an entire generation fueled by big corps and authoritarian regimes. Thus we need to start gatekeeping and moderating some usages or at least creating digital safe networks where devices handled by minors can connect freely. Children should be allowed to grow naturally and not jump start to all the crazy shit adults like to sell.
@gonun13 Yes, i just don't think outright banning social media to minors is the solution. I'd rather governments fining and eventually blocking specific social media sites if their moderation is inadequate. Also doom scrolling should be illegal, as well as algorithms that promote negative interraction.
Yet no laws about any of that. Blocking social media outright is literally incompetence. Social media sites do all of that stuff cos it's legal.
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Matthias Kretz | Vir@Chris2000SP @Azarilh @gonun13 Social interaction on the internet is not the problem. Big tech using their (quasi) monopoly to influence user behavior for "shareholder value" is the problem. E.g., there are some good videos on YT; but I hate to go there because it tries to capture as much of my time as possible. Same for any other commercial platform. Most adults can't deal with this properly. Kids on *social* media, fine. Kids on "commercial influencer", "the user is the product" platforms, NO.
https://www.zdf.de/play/talk/unbubble-100/pornografie-13f-100?q=porn
This is German. Dunno if that is on YouTube or not because That is Porn Discussion from 2022
Kehrtwende in UK: Pornhub widersetzt sich britischen Alterskontrollen
Ein halbes Jahr lang hat sich Pornhub den britischen Alterskontrollen gebeugt und massenhaft Nutzer*innen überprüft. Jetzt macht der Konzern eine Kehrtwende und kündigt seinen Rückzug aus dem Vereinigten Königreich an. Dahinter steckt ein geschickter PR-Stunt. Die Analyse.