• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
    2 days

    “Child safety” has simply become the marketing department for a rent-seeking surveillance industry.

    Damn ain’t that the truth.

  • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
    2 days

    i want the 90s internet back, when only nerds were on it. it was way better back then.

  • fubarx@lemmy.world
    2 days

    Was looking at a used car online. Found a site that had option to ‘reserve’ the car until paperwork was done. Started innocuously with email and phone info, to text updates. Fine. Then it asked to verify info, with scans of driver’s license.

    Persona.

    Noped right out.

    • ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml
      2 days

      Sounds like a scam. My friend recently looked for cars online, saw one he thought was good. Had a weird description “only 70,000km on the odometre but air conditioning is broken” like how? Then my friend paid $300 for a “viewing” of the car and the scammer made off with the money. Needless to say my friend isn’t very smart and never was! Imagine paying just to see something. This is sadly what mental illness does to a person. Not the first time my friend was scammed either.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 days

    The Epstein class wants to reliably know who is (and therefore isn’t) an adult on the internet.

    • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
      2 days

      Agree but this does need to be explained to people who aren’t in the know. These laws are currently being marketed as “put the power in parents hands” in various states left, right, and center.

      Its a good bet when there seems to be widespread bipartisan push for restrictive laws that literally no one asked for, it’s gonna be something bad. But you have to explain to mouthbreathers in the electorate why or this shit just gets rammed through.

      • Zephorah@discuss.online
        2 days

        There’s no explaining it to the public at large in our forums. We already know. Unless people suddenly watch a couple trusted news sources en masse and those news sources choose to explain, ignorance will rule.

        But then that’s the entire point of fracturing information like this. Fake news. Don’t trust science. That’s woke, don’t listen. Etc.