• Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 hours ago
    • “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people!”
    • “Reduce, Recycle, Reuse.”
    • “Only you can prevent forrest fires.”
    • “Be All You Can Be in the Army!”
    • “Parenting!”

    Shift all the blame. Guns? America? Fuck that, it’s the individual, not the industry.

    The internet is always two things. The web, access to information on all levels (good or bad ), should be available. It needs to be regulated bc META and anything Elon is apart of, still exist.

    Parents are fighting, “literally everything” ! We as a species, is losing to whatever the “internet” is. We need real regulation.

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      We as a species, is losing to whatever the “internet” is. We need real regulation.

      And none of that regulation will have anything to do with age, if you want real effectiveness. A teenager seeing a dick and a dick, a vagina and a vagina, or a dick and a vagina, being mashed together isn’t concerning in the big picture. The stuff that is worrying about the internet affects adults just as much as children, like social media.

      • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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        You missed the point completely. My example was Meta and Elon’s companies not teens fucking.

        Age verification is pointless. The post I responded to, was talking about it is the parent’s (individuals) job not the government’s (regulation). That would be wrong.

        And none of that regulation will have anything to do with age, if you want real effectiveness.

        That is an extreme view and I believe a dangerous one. Regulation like not experimenting on teen females which caused some to take their life. That seems pretty age related.

        https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/facebooks-dangerous-experiment-teen-girls/620767/

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      Ear me out: make tools for parents to restrict their child themselves instead of restrictobg everyone and rob data

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        It’s already available and parents are not utilizing it.

        But I also don’t see the problem with this. As long as there’s savvy and smart children that did get educated on safety, the knowledge can propagate to those that did not.

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          It’s already available and parents are not utilizing it.

          The parents have determined that it’s not needed. They’ve determined that trying to strictly regulate exactly what Little Johnny can and can’t see online does him far more harm than porn ever could. This hyper-authoritarian nonsense needs to die in a fire.

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        And the worse part, we DO have tools for parents. Either they don’t know these tools exist or they don’t know how to use them. Mostly because they’re tech-illiterate. Kudos to the parents who educate themselves.

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          This is a benign example, but I was talking with a fellow parent about our dislike of Paw Patrol and told them I had to remove that as an option in Netflix. They were shocked that was possible and I could see the gears turning in their head with that new info. Granted I’m not parenting a teenager yet, but it seems like most of the functionality in bigger platforms generally exists, people just don’t know it’s there and to set it.