Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone

• Stormy@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I get it. For some reason i see this as working towards no more running 7,000 bots and influence peddling, or blatant manipulation from governments through fake accounts running “brand management” campaigns.

  Too optimistic maybe to think a company being aware of one name running a ton of accounts ND doing anything for humanity because of it for the better good, but I get it.

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  • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Too bad almost none of that still actually be implemented and will instead be used to target those who disagree.

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    • Stormy@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ya, too optimistic to think it will be helping anyone besides like 50 guys.

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• random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You forgot the “/s”

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sure, thank you for not being a prick in your approach like everyone else.

  A few reasons:

  First, your private info is already out there. Either it’s hanging out on Spokeo (and you should go there, look yourself up, and request that they delete it.) or one of Google/Meta/Whatever’s servers. Thanks to the video disclosure in the Guthrie case, we know definitively that all of those cameras you have in your home and around your neighborhood are recording you and feeding the information to the government without a warrant for permanent storage. Further, providing ID is something we do for a lot of things that are appropriately age-gated already.

  Secondly, and I think this is the bigger point, is the mounting evidence of detrimental effects social media is having on kids’ cognitive abilities. It affects adults too, but to a lesser extent, likely because our brains have already matured. I know schoolteachers who can’t get their kids to answer a question correctly when the answer is literally written on the dry erase board in front of them, to give one example. The other problem here is the effects on self esteem and mental health, as algorithmically-elevated content is designed to isolate, anger, and cause mental health problems. Happy people aren’t buying every piece of shit they’re fed in their feed’s ads.

  I would prefer to see the companies themselves held accountable and these algorithms made illegal, but I don’t think that will realistically happen, so age-gating via ID is, to me, the best that can be done right now, and I think it’s essential.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What’s your address and phone number? Since they’re “already out there” you can just tell me.

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  • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    While I think your intent is fine, there’s no way I’d trust a for-profit company– Facebook no less– to be the gatekeeper. Their priority is and will always be to wring every possible cent out of your data/privacy. That it might align with children’s safety is coincidental at best, and in any case temporary.

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      TBH, I don’t trust them any further than I can throw them. If it comes to that, I’ll use an old ID with invalid info.

      This is a lesser of two evils thing.

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      • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The answer (IMO) isn’t to succumb to their demands, it’s to cease using their platform. I promise you, you can do without Facebook (or insert any other problematic platform).

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