AI6YR Ben🤨
Seriously? I don't think you can put that genie back in the bottle...
BBC: Under-16s to be banned from TikTok, YouTube and other social media by next spring, Starmer says
Michael BuschI continue to wonder where the push for these blanket bans on social media, cell phones, etc. are coming from.
Since they manifestly do not help anyone.
Justin Macleod@michael_w_busch @ai6yr the desire for mass surveilence. Such a ban cannot be implemented without mass age verification.
The version here in Minnesota would involve "age estimation" done explicitly by surveilling everyone online.
I am just wondering if this is Facebook / Google / etc. pushing for bans that enable them to do more of the surveillance capitalism they already do to avoid actual effective regulation.
Or if there is some other motivation.
`Da Elf@michael_w_busch @JustinMac84 @ai6yr Facebook / Google / etc Love this shit. They can do it in-house and at scale.
Everyone else is going to use third parties:
1. Who will store that data...
2. They WILL get breached (they Always do).
3. They WILL track which sites you auth against.
4. They WILL sell that information.
This isn't speculation, it's simply inevitable.
It was quite disappointing to witness Minnesota state legislators who should know better promoting "age estimation" because sites won't be making copies of everyone's IDs, when the legislators could have simply opposed mass surveillance instead.