Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s so fucking creepy. It’s not just making people dumber, its literally exposing kids to sexual content and sexualizing children in advertisements aimed at adults.

  At what point is it ok for all of society to demand these people either be put in jail or at least exiled from the rest of society?

  Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t agree.

    I started using the web as a curious 8 years old. I was pretending to be an adult in order to sign up to forums, chat with people, etc.

    Yes, I was exposed to porn, gore (remember goatse?) but that didn’t make me dumb or a molester.

    But nothing beats what I learned thanks to the internet. Endless days spent on programming forums, reading articles on a newborn Wikipedia, etc.

    Even just talking with older people than me made me learn how to deal with things and life.

    I don’t think that the internet for a kid is bad per se. I wouldn’t like a blanket ban for kids like the UK. If it was like that when I was a kid, I would probably be a more stupid person.

    I think that the real bad thing is the stupid phones and apps that give you dopamine rushes.

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    • AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hate to say this, but the Internet is not the same as it was back when I was growing up.

      You always had the possibility of stumbling across a bad actor. Now the billionaire tech broligoply who own most social media are the bad actors. How many websites did you visit where the person running the website has been caught repeatedly trying to psychologically manipulate and control the masses via disinformation?

      Back in the day, nobody would be doing whatever the fuck it is these people are doing with kids and their pedo adjacent targeted ads and chat bots bc they would be afraid of being sent to jail for cp

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Corpocrap scrolley apps exploit you on purpose, but that doesn’t generalize. Not.that non techy people understand that

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People get pissed at me but, as a short-term solution, I’m okay with giving up my ID in order to lock kids out.

    Ideally, there’d be federal regulation of these platforms in every country banning algorithmically-elevated content, ads, privacy violations, and holding the operators of these platforms accountable for CSAM, but I think that will take decades.

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    • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

      At least germany is working on a system where people are able to verify that they are over 18 (and maybe other things if they extend the system) without needing to send the ID to some website.         

      They use the Zero-Knowledge-Proofs which is still quite young.        

      A plus about that is that it only says if the person with the proof is older or younger but not who it is and other stuff

      But sadly its not reality yet

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    • ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Personally, I don’t feel comfortable giving my ID to social media. Especially not with the many data breaches that are happening these days. I think it was a month or three ago that Discord had their data breach and got thousands of ID’s stolen of people.

      Yet Discord still decides to push forward their “verification system with ID or face scan”.

      Also here’s a screenshot of a comment someone once made and that also got me thinking about the future of “showing your ID and/ or Face scan to ‘protect the kids’”. Another tone; people and especially teenagers will nearly always find ways to get around rules. I mean, we all were teenagers before and we often also got around the rules.

      screenshot of a Lemmy comment.

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People get pisses at you for good reason

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    • AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why does it need to take decades though?

      I bet if there were actual consequences for this shit, like in the form of seizing assets to be paid to victims, the issue would be solved very quickly.

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