Ahh yes, it's not on the trillion dollar company to have ANY responsibility on what their apps do to civil society. We MUST foist it back onto the parents, the very same parents that Google wants to see working 60 hours a week, to diligently patrol every waking hour of their children's day.
Up next: Zuck explaining why vaping ads and product targeting grade schoolers should be legal, it's really on parents to stop their children from falling for it.
If I've ever seen a manipulative canard for online censorship and increased surveillance, it's this notion that digital platforms need to actively "protect" kids from accessing supposedly harmful content through ID checks, age verifications and other monitoring tools. Can none of you see that for what it is and all the avenues for bureaucratic/regulatory abuses that it presents?
Aside from Zuckerberg being a scumbag in assorted ways, the politicians and private groups rooting for these sorts of enforcement mechanisms are either foolish or pandering in one cynically grotesque way to absurd moral scares that will do nothing to make the internet much safer, better or more free.
I get it, really. “For the kids” is almost always bullshit. But Zuckerberg (and originally Sandberg) intentionally targeted kids and intentionally tweaked algorithms to hurt them (e.g. the entire profit motive for Instagram is giving teen girls depression). Forcing them to, for instance, stop the algorithms from targeting kids would be a positive step that wouldn’t present the harms you’re noting (or be as completely pointless), IMO.
I sort of agree with it. We put age verification on porn sites, what else can you do? Your kids are not supposed to be on this shit. There's endless varieties of inappropriate content on social media, there's no way you can police it all. This is good for indie developers also who can resolve a lot of liability by simply age restricting their social apps.
Ahh yes, it's not on the trillion dollar company to have ANY responsibility on what their apps do to civil society. We MUST foist it back onto the parents, the very same parents that Google wants to see working 60 hours a week, to diligently patrol every waking hour of their children's day.
https://gizmodo.com/googles-sergey-brin-says-engineers-shoul...
Up next: Zuck explaining why vaping ads and product targeting grade schoolers should be legal, it's really on parents to stop their children from falling for it.
Zuck and his ilk are ghouls.
Worse, they are traitors (having lied under oath) and communists (having materially supported the regime in the tooling they developed).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzRzVfwfW8
If I've ever seen a manipulative canard for online censorship and increased surveillance, it's this notion that digital platforms need to actively "protect" kids from accessing supposedly harmful content through ID checks, age verifications and other monitoring tools. Can none of you see that for what it is and all the avenues for bureaucratic/regulatory abuses that it presents?
Aside from Zuckerberg being a scumbag in assorted ways, the politicians and private groups rooting for these sorts of enforcement mechanisms are either foolish or pandering in one cynically grotesque way to absurd moral scares that will do nothing to make the internet much safer, better or more free.
I get it, really. “For the kids” is almost always bullshit. But Zuckerberg (and originally Sandberg) intentionally targeted kids and intentionally tweaked algorithms to hurt them (e.g. the entire profit motive for Instagram is giving teen girls depression). Forcing them to, for instance, stop the algorithms from targeting kids would be a positive step that wouldn’t present the harms you’re noting (or be as completely pointless), IMO.
I sort of agree with it. We put age verification on porn sites, what else can you do? Your kids are not supposed to be on this shit. There's endless varieties of inappropriate content on social media, there's no way you can police it all. This is good for indie developers also who can resolve a lot of liability by simply age restricting their social apps.