Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes.
Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg.
One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...)
Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https://socel.net/@heyheymomo
Currently not in France. Dammit.
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So, again, these age verification laws aren't about children.
They aren't about protecting children.
They aren't about children on social media.
They are about surveillance, control, and abuse.
If we wanted to make social media safer for children, we would pass legislation that actually addressed the way commercial social media is harmful to everyone: limiting notification frequency, mandating interop and data export-ability, preventing surveillance driven advertising models, mandating algorithmic transparency, and enforcing anti-trust against companies like Meta who buy up all their competitors and unify them.
@lisamelton You tell 'em.
I don't lose sleep over the offended sensitivities of people who are more disturbed by garden-variety obscenity than the very real, far more harmful obscenities being referred to.
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