BodilJun 15

Starmer is about to make it illegal not to hand over your identity to the companies which profit the most from having your identity, in order to "give kids their childhoods back."

No, this is how liberty dies: with a "think of the children."

https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/116753016518643319

Neil Brown (@[email protected])

And here's the official announcement of age verification coming to everyone in the UK who wishes to use "social media": > Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back https://www.gov.uk/government/news/social-media-to-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-landmark-government-move-to-givekids-their-childhood-back #OnlineSafetyAct

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Show threadBodilJun 15
And of course they're not banning ChatGPT.
Show threadcmsJun 15
@bodil the thing that needs huge, urgent regulation is online advertising in every form.
Show threadBodilJun 15
@cms I think you can safely generalise further: the thing that needs huge, urgent regulation is capitalism.
Show threadcmsJun 15
@bodil oh no, I'm accidentally doing politics on the Internet again FML.
I'm not arguing with that, I just think if you want to start attacking all of the bad stuff that's coming into peoples heads from the phones like this current mass hysteria, then the surveillance capitalism is what you should focus on, not what apps are given to which class of people.
If they wish to urgently do a practical thing, I would aim there, not some imaginary awful thing that happened to some kids in a Netflix drama.
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@cms @bodil yes - we should focus on making the internet healthy and safe - and recognising that the most harmful bits are the algorithms and advertising

Instead of attempting to leave it intact but trying to keep kids out of a few bits of it.

Jun 15 at 10:03amWeb