Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
  • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    How hard is it to keep track of your children, ffs if you can’t deal with it don’t have kids, stop fucking everyone else in the world over because of it.

  • ejs@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    social media laws are a treatment of a symptom, not the cause.

    meta/tiktok/google capitalize by maximizing engagement, most lucratively outrage (risking ideological polarization) and addiction (many health harms associated). five years ago, this was very different, before the sudden takeover of short form media. now, surveys are indicating that average screen times of children are nearing 8 hours a day.

    the need to address this dire situation is the greatest is has ever been historically.

    yet, banning it outright (aside from the heinous privacy violations) does not entail any accountability whatsoever for these large corporations in creating highly addictive and harmful social media platforms that have consumed our youth

    further, without changes to the structural incentive of maximizing profit, these companies will continue to maximize engagement, and thus addiction to what is a harmful way to spend 8 hours of a day.

    i am hopeful that the lawsuit happening in northern CA against meta will result in some decision ruling these engagement maximizing tactics illegal.

    i also hope that voters will choose candidates in the future that will pass legislation preventing these products from existing, leaving platforms that are actually productive to society, decentralized, and (most importantly) non-profit.

  • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.socialEnglish
    45·
    3 days ago

    Yeah, kids won’t get groomed, killed, and capitalized.

    Social manipulation slop ≠ the internet. Anyone that tells you otherwise wants kids oppressed.

    Biometrics shouldn’t exist. Now tell iPhone & Android users to cease faceapp & fingerprinting themselves.

    • XLE@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      101·
      3 days ago

      If you think an extra layer of universal surveillance will somehow prevent children from being harmed, I have bad news for you. It won’t. Plenty of them will get online anyway, and go to even sketchier sites than ever.

      • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.socialEnglish
        23·
        3 days ago

        Reread my second sentence.

        We are both in the privacy community: I don’t want ANYONE knowing how kids utilize the internet, or should anyones’. These mandatory biometric laws need to be destroyed completely.

        • XLE@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Maybe I misunderstand your point, then, especially if it was sarcastic… I didn’t downvote you so maybe I’m not the only one.

          I also don’t get the biometrics thing. They aren’t a great way of locking down your device, they’re just better than nothing as a very basic theft deterrent when used locally.

          • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.socialEnglish
            21·
            3 days ago

            I am attacking that bullshit headline theguardian allowed, and the thesis of the article. As private-conscious members of this community we need to physically remove these biometric laws by force, and destroy social media whose entire business models depend on violating privacy: We need to be against both, in order to maintain internet privacy.