Post #1047853

2026-03-17 20:10 UTC

But the idea here is to keep kids safe! No: the idea is to assign identity to every user and try to monitor and control the internet though corporate means. That’s the only reason we’re talking seriously about the laws that government and capital are trying to pass. That lobbying money is not being spent to protect kids. The Epstine-class oligarchs doing this don’t give a damn about your children’s safety let alone some useless counter productive methods of ensuring it. I don’t trust the government with totalitarian power nor the companies they would employ to run their age-gate for them, nor the companies currently running social media. They are the ones running the algorithms that are pushing propaganda at your kids right now.

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@pre@boing.world 2026-03-17 20:11

Reading algorithmic feeds is a crazy thing to do: abandoning control over your own influences to a robot programmed by advertisers to manipulate you? Madness. I will not allow a robot programmed by advertisers and surveillance capitalists to determine what I read. I don’t read any robo-feeds and don’t recommend anyone else does. But people do: Top five highest reaching smart phone apps: WhatsappFacebookInstagramGmailYoutube All designed to harvest data from your phone, three of them owned by one creepy billionaire, and most people use them by looking at a robo-feed suggesting to them what to read and watch or filter. I don’t use any of them. I watch some Youtube, but not though their app. Uninstalled that from my phone as soon as I got it. It’s an awful downgrade of just playing in a browser page. I subscribe to some channels there in my RSS reader like a boss. Never watch what their recommendation algorithms suggests. I tell them what I want to watch, I don’t let them tell ME what to watch, and frankly I wish all those videographers would start a peertube instance or something instead of posting their work on a corporate surveillance site. I say you should avoid that algorithm stuff, it’s crazy manipulative. But people should be free to do what they want. I’m free to block Facebook! And I do: and I encourage everyone else to do so too. Edit your DNS, block their domain names. Do it. But if governments or corporations have the power to mandate those choices for everyone, it will go badly. Prohibitions always do.

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@retrosponge@kind.social 2026-03-18 07:03

@pre@boing.world I will believe they want to protect kids when they shut down Roblox.

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