@avoca This is retarded. Not only does this rob children of valuable social interactions, it can only be implemented by using nasty age verification technologies.
If you want to limit the actual harm, then ban Facebook and X and any other platform that pulls eyeballs to right wing propaganda using ad money and algorithmic garbage.
Yup, totally agree.
FYI - to subscribe to Substack in Australia you have to age verify. This is done, for Australian subscribers, by a subsidiary of Palantir.
So, the US intelligence services have a KYC record of EVERY Substack subscriber in Australia.
And there is no way to verify the validity of this statement, so AFAIC its true, its much safer that way.
It really is a matter of appearing to do the right thing, a purely political stunt.
The biggest problem, to my mind, is the minions who make these decisions are so tech-illiterate and gullible to 'big tech' spin, they are creating a more dangerous situation for young people than was originally the case.
For starters, the kids, and lots of sensible parents, are now criminals.
Not to mention the new, massive database of underage kids and their personal details being collected by third-party private companies, for, if you believe that, once collected, this huge revenue earning resource is deleted, you are totally out-of-touch with current marketing practices.
Palantir DOES NOT play by the rules.
Well done leaders.
Also, for context...
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