- Stupendous@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
I knew we were screwed back when all the CCTVs went up and became normalized. The spirit of it was nothing new. Just the over the top visibility of it and it not shattering the public’s perception of the western worlds viewpoints on our being some sort of example of a free world
- XLE@piefed.socialEnglish5 hours
You know what’s a really, really bad thing?
Terrorism.
It’s so bad that we’ve passed laws against it sixteen times since 2000.
And we still end up locking up old ladies for holding a sign.
But I’m sure banning something really terrible like “Looking at the internet” will work out fine.
- username_1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish11 hours
Kids, be sure to never vote for anyone who let this happen.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish9 hours
No one should support anyone pushing this, it’s not about the kids but locking down the internet and surrendering their citizens to silicon valley’s palantir type companies to make secret social scores on everything you do or say or look at, based on their half baked metrics.
10 hoursKids, be sure to never vote.
It’s a waste of your time and energy, and the politicians don’t give a fuck about you, and will do whatever the fuck they want anyway.
- GelatinGeorge@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
The Green Party in the UK recently won a by-election in a fairly small constituency called Gorton and Denton, to the shock of both Labour and Reform.
If Reform had won, I guarantee the UK’s response to Trump declaring war on Iran would have been significantly more in line with what Trump expected: i.e. let’s get the bombing party started.
Voting does matter. Why do you think so many bad actors are always trying to undermine it?
- 8 hours
If voting mattered they wouldn’t let you do it.
Too many people have too much power and control over the system. We just have the illusion of influence.
Petitions are the perfect example, it gives people the illusion that they’re having an effect. But in reality, when those 10k petitions are hit, it’s up to the houses discretion whether they even want to talk about it.
- GelatinGeorge@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
I mean, I just listed an example of voting making a considerable geopolitical difference. Okay, yeah, voting most likely isn’t going to usher in an age of anarcho-syndicalism any time soon but telling people not to engage with the democratic process because it ‘doesn’t matter’ is a bit disingenuous.
Starmer to unveil compulsory online ID checks by the backdoor, more like.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish9 hours
By the backdoor is right. You will have to go through a private company and show id, then your face to facial recognition, then your asshole for their asshole recognition programs. Fuck this, are we so stupid we don’t see what this is actually about?
- BozeKnoflook@lemmy.worldEnglish10 hours
Should we attempt to regulate how social media companies operate, educate children and parents on the possible harm and how to avoid it, or do anything with the goal of just improving the way technology is used?
No, we’ll just ban it. Something that has famously always worked well.
In a way this makes me a little sad. I met my wife via IRC, I built long lasting relationships with random people I met online when I was a teenager; I learned so much about programming and Linux/BSD/Solaris from online forums of people that took time to help my dumb ass out. All of that same potential to be swept under the rug because of trash like TikTok and Facebook.
- BozeKnoflook@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
As far as I (a non-British person) can tell the actual proposal hasn’t been released yet so: nobody knows.
I do know that I wouldn’t count on them doing a good job of defining what “social media” is; and if we’re being honest then IRC, Usenet, forums, and Lemmy should all be included in that definition as they are all forms of it.
I started coding when I was 10 (yea, I know, that’s earlier than usual, but still!) and I learned so much from programming forums and mailing lists that I think it’s safe to say my entire career would be on a very different or VERY delayed path if I wasn’t allowed access to those until I was 16.
Sorry, you must be old enough to pilot a multi-thousand-pound vehicle at highway speeds before we let you learn about the dark magic that is Perl and awk.
double-down and do something even more stupid. it’s what they do.
good thing the planet spins around and goes around on its own, because they’d find a way to fuck that up, too.
- 8 hours
Yea I’m all for it.
It’s a toxic place full of political propaganda and dangerous mechanics designed to hack their dopamine systems.
Is it the best option? No. Digital literacy about the effects of spending time online, and being taught what it is they’re actually giving their attention would be best.
But this will have to do for now.
If this doesn’t happen, we’re going to have a whole generation of people who never learnt to think for themselves, have absolutely no impulse control whatsoever and who knows what else.
The ways they find around it, again, are good - because they’ll probably be free from agendas by other state actors and profit at their expense.
- Noja@sopuli.xyzEnglish7 hours
Even if you support this shit, 16 is an absolutely crazy high age. You can vote at 16 but your government thinks you are too stupid to use “social media” responsibly? This is pure stupidity. And to no surprise, the ID verification companies behind this are sponsored by Palantir. This is every fascists wet dream.
