ptoothfish (but beige)1d ago

“gIvE kIdS tHeIr cHiLdHoOd BaCk”

so… you mean fund recreation centres and out of school activities? NO

sports clubs and increasingly walkable cities? HAHA NO

playgrounds, green spaces, skate parks, libraries, any non-commercial spaces where kids don’t have to pay to exist? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

oh… enforce realistic safety standards for urban SUVs and light trucks? WHAT HAS THAT EVEN GOT TO DO WITH THE PRICE OF EGGS?

so how exactly does one give kids their childhood back? BAN SNAPCHAT TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM

oh… what about 4chan or stormfront or kiwifarms? DON’T BE OBTUSE WE CAN’T BAN THOSE HOW WOULD THAT EVEN WORK??!?

Show threadGrumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱1d ago

@ptoothfish

It makes an incredulous old bastard like myself suspect that this really isn't about nurturing and protecting children at all.

If I was cynical, I'd say that Zuck and Meta and Microsoft want to know exactly who's clicking so they can charge more for targeted advertising and that local, state, and federal cops want even more specific results to their subpoenas.

Show threadSupermoosie23h ago

@grumble209

Australian ban was pushed by a radio station, large advertising company and 32 global partner companies.

Want kids off their mobile screens and back to radio and tv, so they can consume advertising they control.

Also own AI age verification tools and ai ban statistics to sell.

Hence they are now pushing global.

Nothing about protecting kids.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/09/36-months-teen-social-media-ban-big-tech-brands/

‘Everyone got paid’: How Wippa’s pro-teen social media ban group cashed in on its success

36 Months accused ban critics of being paid off by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up sponsorship deals, eyeing global expansion and coming up with its own AI tool to sell.

Crikey
Show threadRhianaH10h ago
@SuperMoosie @grumble209 100% if they really wanted to protect kids they'd boot off the dodgey people and content instead
Show threadGrumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱

@DevRhiana @SuperMoosie

Maybe ask the kid's parents to exercise a little oversight? Or bring to market phones that allow parents to filter content (aka "Kosher phones")

It just seems like there might be other ways to handle protecting kids than every adult handing every web site a copy of their passport.

3:29amWeb
Show threadRhianaH5h ago
@grumble209 @SuperMoosie I think that would, and probably should, require a lot of education to be delivered to parents. I've met a lot through school and they're generally not very tech savvy. It's why a lot do fall back to no screens at all, instead of moderated and protected screen time. Because they don't have those skills or the time to do so.
Show threadGrumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱5h ago

@DevRhiana @SuperMoosie

All of this dodges the deeper issue that many (most?) of these web site operators have demonstrated repeatedly that they are not good stewards of private information. But for the sake of children, we should now trust those same idiots to hold our most trustworthy identification credentials?

It's preposterous.