Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
Prime minister wants young people to be shielded from ‘power of the algorithm’
Yeah, sure, man. I haven’t looked much into social media when I was 13, and had seen porn ads and ran into surprise things. Looking back, I don’t think I needed this nanny thing.
The law isn’t for you
The point is I do not think they need that much protection. Better education is the solution.
Should raise minimum age to 500
All in favor upvote
Great hope it helps
That’s like putting a bandaid on a sucking chest wound.
I have no problem giving everyone access to means of socializing online. We have or have had BBS, Usenet, IRC and many more ways to do this. The problem with “social media”, IMHO, are the algorithms and addictive design concepts as well as the fact that these platforms are designed to extract as much information from the user as possible. The information provided is not the product, the user is.
Well I have a massive fucking problem with giving the KGB, MS13 or ISIS access to my children online.
kids will easily find ways around this, and social medias will facilitate it
aka nothing will change whatsoever
Properly motivated ones will find a way around it. Those just clicking out of habit might not be assed to. If the whole point is zoning out, being asked to perform intellectual labour to access it is counterproductive to the urge.
Is it just me or do is there a unusual amount of hexbear users in this post? Maybe it is just by chance.
yea, one properly motivated one will figure out how to do it, then show all the can’t be assed ones
I can understand the intent behind this, but I wonder if it will actually prevent kids bypassing these restrictions. Much less, in my own country minors that shouldn’t be on platforms have public accounts.
Without proper enforcement of such restrictions and/or actual technical solutions to enforce this on the user’s end, this is just feel-good signaling.
“This legislation is sponsored and brought to you by our good friends over at NordVPN…”
Ballissle@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I was jailbreaking my iPod when I was 11 and bypassing school computer restrictions. This isn’t stopping anyone. I think even a vpn would simply bypass this
shath@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
you’d be surprised at the technical capability of phone generations rather than pc generations
fox@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Technical aptitude is born of need. Of course this will limit most, but at least some will figure out bypasses.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I find it crazy how the IT departments at the various schools can’t seem to understand the economics of it all. The more they lock it down the more motivated the students become to break it. It also doesn’t help that schools are censorship hell.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I am less concerned with stopping young people from accessing the web then with general awareness of people about the damaging mental side effects of technology.
Those side effects are usually long term, an account and a few online interactions wont harm much. But a habit will.
If my kids hacks trough my infrastructure i will shine with IT pride… and then update my infrastructure explaining them why it is i am so concerned.
I know they will find ways outside my walled garden but keeping them in was never the point, providing a safe space to live to develop healthy habits is.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I tormented the crap out of my middle schools IT guy. He couldn’t figure out how I managed to bypass the GPOs. Spoiler: the group policy was at the user level which made it easy to unapply.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They may require real-world credentials to create an account to prevent that.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It also gives parents assurance that they arent crazy for restricting their kids access to these hell sites.