Pappabosley

@Pappabosley@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s the problem, this bill does absolutely nothing to rectify that. They could try and hold the companies to account (good luck with Elon on Trumps team), or even better, they could snap back to reality and actually look at educating kids how to navigate and use these online spaces.

  Do you think that kids at 16, suddenly getting access with no prior experience or knowledge of how the systems work will be better?

  1. We have existing regulation about media and who can watch it, we shortly update this and apply it as well as we can to be technologies.
  2. Children should be taught how to verify information and utilise online spaces healthily, like it or not, these spaces will be around in some form.
  3. Parents should be taught how to work with their children and should be held accountable, same as if i let my 13 yr old go to an R rated movie.

  There are much worse places than instagram and tiktok, that won’t be following any government recommendations. This bill does nothing but enhance the surveillance state, as everyone will be required to verify their identity, what the government is really doing is fighting online anonymity, but please just think of those poor little kids.

  I agree with all your criticism of social media, I hate it (this is the only platform I am on) but if they pass this bill, social media will still be round, fucking up the world, just the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They already lowered the wholesale prices earlier in the year to try and promote users to higher tiers and the helcos were all “passing these savings on to the end user could be bad, so we’ll have to think about it” and then everyone went back to being price gouged

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies are finding new ways to monetize personal data, too often without proper notice or consent. ICYMI, three current examples that you may want to act on to opt out: PayPal, LinkedIn and 23andMe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole board (except CEO) resigned last month because they couldn’t agree in a buyout option

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies are finding new ways to monetize personal data, too often without proper notice or consent. ICYMI, three current examples that you may want to act on to opt out: PayPal, LinkedIn and 23andMe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially do it for 23andMe because they’re going out of business and will just be doing it to increase the sale price