Comment by b00ty4breakfast
1 month ago
That's because we should be regulating the social media industry rather than regulating social media users.
Unfortunately, social media users don't have billions of dollars to spend on lobbying and related activities around the world.
> That's because we should be regulating the social media industry rather than regulating social media users.
These lawsuits and regulations are against the industry, not the users.
The regulations and lawsuits are driving the pressure to ID check users and remove end-to-end encryption.
The ask is to treat users differently based on age. How can they do that without verifying their users age?
we should be removing the harmful aspects of modern social, which are harmful for everyone not just minors, by making them unprofitable or even outright illegal.
Instead we are saying "only adults should use this" which, while technically regulating the industry, places the restriction on users.
We're treating it like tobacco or alcohol (2 industries who have similarly spent millions upon millions of dollars in lobbying efforts) but we should be treating it like asbestos.
OK, so what would be in the text of this law making it enforceable and not easily game-able by the social media companies and without severe unintended consequences?
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You honestly think facebook has no idea that the children using their website are children? The combination of the children's selfies, social network, GPS coordinates, and posts make it very clear. Facebook already knows who the children are and they've been explicitly targeting them accordingly.
You want people to be kicked off the internet because they have a baby face? You think the law should mandate the use of an imperfect facial recognition system?
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