Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
Submitted 13 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
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MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Soulphite@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
FUCK THE SYSTEM!
Rodancoci@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I WAS BORN TO RAGE AGAINST 'EM!
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
With the unlubed, thorny, gritty, legendary dildo of consequences!
mp3@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Fucking never. Never ever. I’d sooner cut myself off from all technology and live in the woods than willingly give those creepy fucks my middle goddamn name. There is absolutely nothing good that will come from this company. The people at that company literally fucking movie villains. It’s fucking crazy that absolutely anyone works with them, let alone world governments.
These large scale surveillance companies like Palantir, like Flock, they shouldn’t exist. They should be outlawed. Our government needs probable cause and a warrant to surveil a suspect. If a normal civilian followed you around and filmed you, kept track of you at all times, they’d be arrested for stalking. But for some reason private companies can just watch every man, woman, and child in public and online, catalog all our movements, where we went, how we went there, who was with us, track what we do, what we read, who we know, how we spend our time, what we say, etc., and then permanently log all of that, use it to form dociers on us, predict our behaviors, or desires, ways to manipulate us, and then turn around and sell that data to governments, other companies and private parties. How the fuck is that legal.
Why in the fuck would you ever allow a private, profit-driven company to have that kind of power over your nation, let alone reward it with federal dollars, long term contracts and access to our law enforcement and military data and systems?
Worse, the founders and CEO are unhinged wannabe dictators of their own sovereign techno-states. They’re not even secretive about that. And our goverment is fucking funding these nuts and giving them every detail of the lives of our citizenry, our goverment officials, our military… how fucking stupid do we have to be, guys? I wish I could say it’s just Trump but it’s not. It’s mind boggling.
roboticfireplace@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’m here because of this. 10 year old Reddit account deleted, app deleted, done over and out.
WeavingSpider@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
“Compelled” *evil shojo laughing all the way to the delete button"
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Fucking Peter literally creating the very thing he scorns.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They’re trying to force it to happen. They somehow think they’ll be spared any only the people they hate will have to suffer.
Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
It’s a great way to kill those products. Maybe that’s the only upside.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Is it?
Most people won’t care and continue using it anyways.
I won’t, for sure, but most people are fucking idiots when it comes to this stuff
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The problem is there are a lot of subreddits that are an excellent resource. As far as I know, there aren’t any Blender help instances with a 100,000 people. I really wish there were.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Maybe that’s his goal.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
If people cared about “the children” they wouldn’t let them on the Internet until they were 21.
Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
If people cared about “the children” they wouldn’t let them on the Internet until they were 21.
Yeah, that’s only for the people that think they care, but are actually ageist and discriminate.
Protecting children comes in hand with protecting humanity. The sole existence of predatory algorithms, and other shit makes age meaningless.
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I don’t think that’s the solution though, kids (including teens to some extent) can be on the internet but it requires better parenting. It’s better to monitor what they are doing online until they are like 15 or 16, maybe 17 if you have a really good reason too. Limit screen time, be around to answer questions your kid has about what they might see.
Little kids though? Absolutely should be off the internet. Anyone under 10 shouldn’t be on the internet period in my opinion. 10-12 is kinda a gray zone to me where it’s definitely up to the parents and if they think their child is ready.
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Also since they weren’t allowed on the internet till they were 21, those 21 year olds won’t know how to act on the internet. So now there’s 21 year olds roaming around who will need to figure all that shit out. They might get other aspects of being an adult but the internet will be completely alien.
It’s like when I saw people saying kids shouldn’t be allowed into the grocery store because someone was annoyed that kids didn’t know how to behave there yet. You just create a new and larger problem where adults don’t know how to act.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
My nephew has a new baby. Her parents are constantly waving their phones in her face; sending pics back and forth; generally doing ‘millenial things’ with their phones when not actively attending the baby. Then proceed to get all freaked out when the baby expresses interest or curiosity in the phone.
Kids mimic their parents behavior and interests. If you want kids with healthy internet use, you have to have parents model healthy internet use.
Akh@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It is far more complicated. The brain develops slowly while social media provides constant dopamine hits leading to doom scrolling and the part of the brain that is tasked with hitting the brakes is just not there
freeman@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
People 18 and over are adults. I know the US somehow forbids adults from drinking but I don’t think more countries should dilute people’s rights.
Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 49 minutes ago
Even if op’s case was satirical, it is quite ageist honestly. It is the difference between freedom and submission. In addition, op is also extremely wrong, as development continues till 35+, so such outdated statements about development are actually sickening.
eli@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, we should also ban anyone under 25 from voting too! Brain isn’t fully developed! Reeeee!
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
And anyone over 50, brain is barely functional after 30 years of propaganda.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If people cared about “the children” they wouldn’t let them on the Internet until they were 21.
I faintly recall there were then a few people who criticized Gore’s idea of opening up the Internet to the public.
ChadGPT2@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What is the lemmy equivalent for discord?
Sv443@sh.itjust.works 30 minutes ago
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 1 hour ago
Matrix. Also to a much lesser degree XMPP.
WeavingSpider@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Nothing so far, there is Stoat, Roomy and Root, iirc there are others but I do not recall them atm.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
Fluxer.app
Mayoman68@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Matrix is probably the closest in terms of being widespread and well supported by client and server implementations, though it’s not quite the same. It’s a bit finicky in practice too.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
palintirs AI desperate need to get clients, so when the bubble burst they wont be hurt that much.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Peter fucking thiel has too much money and is backing everything, for example PayPal and stripe that are processing 80% of e-commerce payments
bagsy@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Thats going to finally break my reddit addition, and ill bet any amount of money im not alone.
big_slap@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
the API fiasco forced me off, so im glad I had a 2 year start on federation
Ghostie@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Lemmy is better anyway.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
go through and edit your comments to be gibberish before you delete your acccount
db2@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They’ll undo it. Go look at mine that shouldn’t exist.
Bell@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Or subtlely wrong just to break the AI that’s lining Spez’ pockets.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
My kid wants to be verified on Roblox sooooooo bad so he can defend himself against trolls. It’s actually been a good lesson in ignoring those idiots like water off a ducks back.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Why would you let him interact with randoms?
Like. “Trolls” are the least of your worries here.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
You ever been on Roblox? I’m not going to shelter him from what’s out there. Together we’re going to learn how to outsmart and out play every kind of troll. My daughters are much stronger now after playing toxic COD Zombies lobbies a decade ago. I’m an old man with three wonderful kids who will never bully or belittle another animal, even the nasty animals online.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
Right… It like letting you kid run around times square in the 70/80s with no guardian.
ceenote@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I guess I’m compelled not to use Roblox, Reddit or Discord, then.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
for Roblox, at least, you’re not missing out. If I wanted to get fleeced by a bunch of pedophiles and bigots, I’d check out the next RNC gathering.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I tried convincing my friends to leave discord, and only 2 people attempted, but I kind of fucked up by enabling message encryption.
But now that this bullshit is here, I wonder if I should try again? I might go the VPS route and call it a day, but I really want to have it locally hosted so I don’t have yet another thing to pay monthly.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
“Compelled”
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
when are they rolling that shit out on AI-slop-CSAM-central aka twitter?
Furbag@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Over my dead body. These services can go fuck themselves and die.
xc2215x@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That is so strange.
Sabata11792@ani.social 9 hours ago
Like hell me, my 1 friend and my half working Matrix server are.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Mmmm, looks like I’ll have to get my porn elsewhere from now on
Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Abandon all of these platforms and any others that associate in any way with Palantir or Thiel
jimmy90@lemmy.world 4 minutes ago
i still use them without going through the id system
hasn’t affected me at all
root@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Almost wish I could be part of the exodus, but I use none of these
Ghostie@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Good
Strider@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Let’s wait until it’s revealed that every commercial us platform is connected…