Glyphwhile I have a level of sympathy for the california/colorado style of age-verification law, and I think many reactions against it are overheated, at the end of the day we still have to oppose stuff like this because society's ideas of what ought to be age-gated are just wrong on the merits. the goal is to ban access to perfectly normal healthy things like queer communities and still allow kids access to fucked-up dangerous adults-only stuff like catholicism and the president of the united states
like I have a young child and nothing would please me more than to put their birthday into the OS and then let them go nuts on the internet doing whatever they want, but my values (no child should be allowed to access a chatbot under any circumstances, roblox should be a crime, but children should be allowed to read wikipedia pages about human anatomy if they want) are just not reflected in our social fabric because all age-related internet stuff is just a series of very frustrating moral panics
we live in a world where Jonathan Haidt and Thomas Chatterton-Williams are both still broadly taken seriously as intellectuals, there's no way we are getting sensible regulation of social media any time this century
Cassandra is only carbon now@glyph God, the list goes on. Why is Ross Douthat... just why is he? Or Chris "my god he just tweeted his evil plan on main" Rufo taken seriously?
@xgranade are you on IBCK premium, btw? their last premium episode features an *extremely* funny Ross Douthat moment
@glyph I'm not, no, but I might have to. Always here for funny moments at Ross Douthat's expense.
Jason Lefkowitz@jalefkowit @xgranade oh come on that's not fair. With the amount of time Tom Friedman spends in Ubers, he would be a whiz at directing cars through a car wash, he must have a CAD-model level of detail in his mental map of the interior of the 100 most popular car models in the last 20 years