Privacy

The MCMC dictates that platforms must eventually implement robust age verification against government-issued records such as the national identity card called MyKad, or passports. Tech companies have been granted a six-month grace period to fully integrate a rigorous age-verification system for users aged 16 and above.

This is nothing but an anti-privacy measure, and discussing it in good faith as a child protection measure is playing into their propaganda. Discussing the merits of these "age-verification" laws as such is about as dumb as agreeing to refer to anti-abortion as pro-life when you yourself are pro-abortion.

Oh and agreeing with these "age-verification" laws because you want to save the children is even dumber.

Step 1: Remove physical third spaces

Step 2: Remove digital third spaces

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Uh.....

I am a little unsympathetic to the notion that people can't socialize without social media.

You have phone calls, texts, email, snail mail, face-to-face conversations, sports, community activities, etc. Call your friends, get on bikes, and go have an adventure.

It's like being forced to quit drugs cold turkey, and that sucks. There's been enough whistleblowers telling us social media is being shaped to be as addicting and harmful as possible and to get kids hooked as young as possible.

I was born a generation or maybe two now? above these kids. I got to experience the early Internet and not having MySpace weaponized against me. So from that perspective I'm at I'm happy for them. It's been consistently hard to avoid social media and the backlash of friends. I'll be excluded from a group event or miss important information every so often and then get told. "Well if you were on Facebook you would've known."

These kids will be alright once they discover what avenues are available to them for communication.

Surprise surprise. If you want to help, regulate the social media itself, hold companies accountable for content they show to children.

These lazy little shits don't even remember when they were young, and yearned for the mines.

Gonna have to touch grass

Yeah I don't think cutting it off like this is the best approach

Oh those poor children!

Now they have to talk to each other in school

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Yea, that wiöö take time and guidance for quite a number of kids.

Form crime gangs like they are everywhere else. What 16 year old didn't go smash bottles or windows or set things on fire at that age?

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