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socialization mediated by text and/or screen and/or voice is not the same as real stuff, that i firmly believe (i get the irony, posting this on a social media). Now whether people can find resources as static content/rss feeds/news articles to lighten burden of being bullied for being unusual/oppressed via irl meetings is a separate and important matter.
it's atomizing corrosive structure overlaid on humanity sprinkled with spying and advertising, children (and adults) also shouldn't see advertising or be spied on, at all.
i don't care that it involves children, i care it involves social media.
Then advocate for a ban (or effective regulation) on social media! Instead you're tacitly consenting to (and normalising) a massive increase in domestic and commercial surveillance infrastructure just so those shit websites continue to have access to fuck up the majority of the population.
Do you think adults just magically teleport past identity verification?
Kids can just not go on those sites moving forward but adults will continue to use them and have their identities on every platform they use indexed at a handful of commercial identity verification services. The government will also have easy access to those databases. In return the rest of us get: ?????????
if you think there is a noticeable increase in surveillance from this, you are not pilled enough on advertising fencing/wifi/bl/cell tower logging, at most this is an extra tool for the toolbox. if adult people think logging to youtube is worth using their real picture to 3rd party kyc provider, they aren't exactly surveillance conscious now are they.
Surveillance happens inside the app, not from internet routing, your isp and main provider (unless nsa is involved) at most can connect time of activity of account to your sessions/send packets and they have to bother to do it, social media knows this in plain metadata and more than willing to supply it.
i do think requiring hardlock on sold phones in a country for kiddie (with white listed internet or time restricted internet aside from like messaging) and non-kiddie mode is more elegant solution than dipshittery with verification cans