• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    28 days ago

    This is technically feasible, and bussiness don’t need to know your id. If anonymous government certificates are issued.

    But I’m morally against it. We need to both educate on the dangers of internet and truly control harmful platforms.

    But just locking it is bad for ociety. What happens with kids in shitty families that find in social media (not Facebook, think prime time Tumblr) a way to scape and find that there are people out there not as shitty as their family. Now they are just completely locked to their shitty family until it’s too late.

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      28 days ago

      I’ve said this before, and I’ll keep saying it, we need better terms than “social media.” Tumblr, Reddit, and Lemmy I don’t think should be in the same group as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Social media that uses your real life information should be separate from basically forums that use an online persona.

      I don’t know what this legislation says, but I agree with you. It should be limited to restricting the “personal social media,” not glorified internet forums.

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      28 days ago

      I think that the chances of a kid from a broken home finding an exploiter online is much more likely than that kid finding a helpful, supportive community.

      • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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        27 days ago

        Those kids already have exploiters; their parents. The right to communication should be granted to all, and especially the most vulnerable.

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          27 days ago

          They have schools, churches, neighbors, other family, etc etc. There are plenty of organized groups online looking for kids to exploit.

          You’re assuming that they’ll find good people online. If they don’t they’ll end up much worse than when they started.

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              27 days ago

              I live in New York City. Old timers here remember when 42nd Street was called ‘the Minnesota Strip.’ It got that name because thousands of young people [some as young as 12] would jump on buses and come to New York to live the dream. They’d be met by pimps who routinely patrolled the bus terminal and quickly gathered up as many as they could.

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                  27 days ago

                  So, you’re saying my point is relevant, but you’ll ignore it because it involves historical facts?

                  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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                    27 days ago

                    No. Your point is old people stuff from the physical world. Times changed and your knowledge is out of date. You’re trying to apply physical wisdom to the digital world. Because you’re a boomer who doesn’t understand technology.