well this is the consequence of a platform not having a downvote button. people think that having a downvote button causes controversies because now people can be angry at other people, but actually it allows people to downvote bad content to remove it from the algorithm without having to click + write a comment.

that indian guy also later said “i’m not a scammer, i’m a capitalist”

love that humor :)

if the pictures were at least well done, but bruh it’s depressing as shit to look at. no idea, no vision, if a photographer took these pictures i would fire them for having bad taste.

Downvote because your post is mostly tribalism. It’s “us users” vs “them evil state who want to surveil us”.

Have you actually spent time considering whether age verification is beneficial? Whether parents think that their children spend too much time online, or whether the teenagers think that themselves? Have you taken their input and concerns serious?

Many people i know irl are saying that children should spent less time online and maybe only in cleaner parts of the internet, which excludes a lot of sites. and they’re not saying that because they want to surveil everyone, but because they want to live a simple, unworried life that keeps them away from danger.

I think headbashing won’t bring us anywhere, we need to listen to people’s concerns and take them seriously, and respond with clever wits and thorough analysis.

oh and before any of you say “well, parents already have the ability to limit what children can do on their smartphones”. well, i did a lot of surveys about who knows these abilities, and who uses them, including here on lemmy, and the result is pretty bleak. 99.9% of people don’t know any parental controls, and many believe that there are no effective parental controls today. if you think otherwise, please provide examples.

What is even meant by “king”? What’s the definition?