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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

He's just angry he can't prey on them with the social media service he bought that creates pictures of naked children.

[–] Only_Slightly_Bent@lemmy.world 42 points 14 hours ago
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 21 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

he also said, β€œWhat day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 2 points 43 minutes ago

I still have to laugh every time i see that photo. I remember when i saw it for the first time and thought it's not okay to make fun of that disabled dude.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago

It's funny. Suddenly another photo comes to my mind... But in black and white.

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Can we stop needlessly sharing Elmo's deranged utterances? The topic of social media policy (much as anything else) is too important than to concern ourselves with his weird tweets.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 20 points 14 hours ago

Wait, so this guy said something?

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 40 points 16 hours ago

Elon didn't buy an entire social media platform and turn it into a pedo playground just to watch all the children leave.

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Man with child pornography machine is angry because people don’t want children to be on his platform

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 57 points 17 hours ago

Guy who owns hate machine that lets you virtually undress children upset that guardrails are being erected to protect children.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 22 points 16 hours ago

Elon Musk is a cunt who needs to fuck off back to Pretoria.

[–] some_guy 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If teens and preteens aren't on social media, how will the pedo-rape crew that hung out with Jefferey Epstein groom them online? Someone please think of the poor, downtrodden richest man on earth, for ONCE PLEASE.

[–] BigShammy80@feddit.org 1 points 36 minutes ago

This comes to mind

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago

Huh, I was actually unsure weather I liked this law but now I am sure, that I like it.

[–] hornedfiend@piefed.social 7 points 14 hours ago

He's right, we should outright ban X entirely in EU. Besides some right wing extremists, no one will care.

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 8 points 15 hours ago

Who cares what a delusional midwit mass social criminal says or thinks? Let him scratch it on his cell wall in supermax.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

This wouldn't be the first time Spain has fallen for nazi politics. Now the nazi scum are trying to do it again. Luckily the current PM knows better than to listen to the nazis.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

Broken clock is right, but for the wrong reasons (i.e. like a broken clock).

age-gating social media = obligatory ID verification for social media access

Do you trust your government to handle your ID data safely and in a way that law enforcement etc. can't access without proper cause? This is definitely going to get used to do police raids and years-long device seizures on people who call dick politicians dicks - the process is the punishment.

If you actually want to protect children, force operating system manufacturers or home internet hardware manufacturers to implement child filters that work reliably.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 points 52 minutes ago

Do you trust your government to handle your ID data safely and in a way that law enforcement etc. can’t access without proper cause? This is definitely going to get used to do police raids and years-long device seizures on people who call dick politicians dicks - the process is the punishment.

The government **already **handle your ID data.
It has your document id number, SSN equivalent (in Italy Codice Fiscale), the number of your driver license, the number of your passport, know where you live, know where you work and know any other information about you that allow it to identify you, they issued most of them, they know them.

If you actually want to protect children, force operating system manufacturers or home internet hardware manufacturers to implement child filters that work reliably.

It was proven times and again that filters are useless.
Man, they where useless back at the time where the filter at the newsstand was a person that could check you id before selling you pornographic journals and they are useless today where you need to be 18 to buy alcohol.
The only real solution is to educate the children, which require educated parents.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 9 points 15 hours ago

Child filters isn't nearly enough. It's the addictive nature of the apps, created by algorithms that are cooked up by psychiatrists, behavioral scientists, and experimentally and iteratively "improved" by AI - algorithms that could potentially be used for other things than just making an app "sticky"

You're right about the privacy concerns, but the conclusion should be to have rules so strict that it is practically banning X, Meta, TikTok, et.c.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

I trust Microsoft even less with ID and tracking information.

[–] teeaa@piefed.social 3 points 14 hours ago

Your government likely already has your ID data that law enforcement can see. I much rather trust the government (or banking systems like in Finland) to handle the age verification than some private enterprises that can be hacked and the information stolen, like already happened with Discord.

[–] Klimaschutz@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

His daughter says, he's wrong.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 12 hours ago

His son punched him in the face and gave him a black eye.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Has the guy finally realized he's still a visionary? After all, you're usually on the right track if you do the exact opposite of what this jerk says. So maybe that's the best approach here.

I'm not a fan of this proposal, because it can only be implemented with age verification, which we all know what that entails, but if he's against it, you almost have to be for it.

Nah, better not. The right thing to do is ignore all his pronouncements and make sure everyone finally leaves his goddamn self-aggrandizing platform - and that he spends his twilight years deservedly in prison.

In any case: Fuck this pedophile piece of shit.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Does that mean that PSOE is.. The good one?

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

On this one, yes. On other things...

[–] Absinthe3858@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, I bet he did

[–] EverXIII@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago

No, "arriba" no. Viva.