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If social media for kids is so bad, should we be allowed to post kids’ photos online? (theconversation.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by King@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@piefed.social

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[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Social media is bad for everyone, not only for kids, basically digital heroin, getting you addicted to upvotes which release dopamine, the happy substance, in your head.
Blocking social media for kids is not to protect the kids, but to create a police surveillance regime where it becomes easier for the government to track everyone and stop protestors who go against their regime.
Posting fotos of your kids on social media should only be done with consent of the kids.

Please don't mis-interpret these laws, they're not to protect the children, but it's spinned as such.

Protect your rights to privacy instead of swallowing political bs reasons while letting your rights get eroded away.

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Blocking social media for kids is not to protect the kids, but to create a police surveillance regime where it becomes easier for the government to track everyone and stop protestors who go against their regime.

How?

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

As already pointed out,
age verification everywhere.

As an example, the UK currently wants age verification everywhere, even on Wikipedia..

Besides the government tracking you, it's also a risk for identity theft.

As an example, Australia wants age verification everywhere, even on Discord, which lead to a data breach where 70k IDs got leaked due to insufficient security practices on their part.

This is only the first of many of such leaks of these laws become more common.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because everyone becomes subject to age verification.

Papers, please.

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So don't go on platforms that require ID verification I guess. If you're coordinating anything subversive or threatening to the power structure on public-facing social media then you should have stopped doing that a long long time ago.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're really saying "if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear," and it's corollary, "only those who have something to hide require privacy?"

Were you born yesterday?

[–] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Not the guy you were talking to but I wonder, what do you think about privacy preserving age verification?

A site requests your age, this opens a 3rd party oauth or similar login where you can login without the site directly seeing it, you get a request similar to logging in with google and getting the "this site will see your email and real name", but the request will only contain your age. The third party will cryptographically sign the message containing only the request uuid and your age (or even just >18 or <18) and the site itself can verify that, but nothing more or less.

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I was in Arab Spring. I've been doing public demonstrations for decades, including actions that change governments. Don't be naive. Public social media, ID verified or not, is not where you should be planning ops.

[–] purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

To me it raises a question of consent. What kids can't and can consent to. It's an important topic in these situations. In a lot of cases, kids are being exposed on social media without ever really having a choice. Their life preserved for all to see. It is an issue. I'm not sure what the solution is though.