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God forbid you tell parents to start parenting and, I don’t know… watch what their kids do online?
Never! How can they scroll their own social media if they have to manage their kids?
You’re obviously a great parent. I’d love to know what tips you have.
Certainly, allowing your kids to browse all the internet, including cesspools such as reddit, facebook and twitter unwatched is a great way of parenting!
If only we had things such as parental controls on these devices and filters to block harmful sites… But alas, none of that exist, so we have to rely on a nanny state.
You’re not wrong, but it’s buying in to the ‘think of the children’ misdirection while privacy rights are snatched away from the entire population. Fight this on privacy (on the internet) grounds, find better ways to require effective moderation (for example) instead, if it’s bad for kids it’s likely bad for adults, but not for the profit of the corpos that will just step around or wear the fines while hoovering more personal data. Think in terms of car companies creating jaywalking and then getting the scouts to promote the idea.
I agree with you. We are losing our privacy “because of the children”
My point is that there are websites that shouldn’t be visited by a 10yo. And that’s enterely on their parents. You shouldn’t let your child browse the internet completely unsupervised if you don’t even bother on setting some filters for their own safety.
And I agree with you, there’s some unspeakable shit out there, much of it, IMO, not fit for child nor adult, but making everyone pony up ID or facial recognition data or whatever will remove none of that, nor make it less accessible to children. Given basic child psychology it will, in fact, make it more attractive, more’s the pity, and time and again children have shown themselves highly effective at circumventing it.This is also AusGov, home of some of the worst IT implementations in the world, whose current plan is, as disclosed so far a month out, she’ll be right mate, we got the same mob as the UK used and they reckon it’s fine. Better moderation requirements on large social media sites, better blocklists with easy secure implementation explained well to parents, any other number of other things would be more effective and non invasive. But no, it’s cheaper (possibly negative expense if there are kickbacks) to let facebook ask for ID or worse.
The biggest excuse you have as a kid is “all my friends have it” with this, there’s no hiding
How long until they notice lemmy?
It depends on how quickly Lemmy will get new users. Lemmy barely reaches 1% of Reddit’s user base and doesn’t grow quickly by now. But because of Reddit ban reputation this may soon change and in a few years it may be more than a 10% of Reddit user base.
Hoping to see a surge for aussie.zone
Bit of an ask to give only a month’s notice on having to verify every Australian user’s age, technique left up to you (but if it’s not good enough, massive fines!)
I wouldn’t call them “massive fines” since, as per the article, they can be of up to $32M, which, for a company that makes billions, are merely operating costs.
I agree, tho, seems too short for a notice requiring something so big.
Probably the easiest/cheapest way is to just use an existing identity provider and require all users to sign up through there. Wonder how that will affect the userbase…
I for one welcome our future aussie comrades. Maybe aussie.zone can do a donation drive for more hardware or smth?
We got government run id checking services already where it calls an api, I put my details in then the government tells the site the result, but not everyone has suitable id.
Considering the role Reddit played in spreading Trumpism I dont think this is a bad idea.
Agree. Reddit got spoiled by money and now is a corrupted place. I hope that this platform will soon grow over 1 million in user base size.
