From Twitter/X:
Big Tech companies block law that would protect children 😡🚩
Google, Meta and TikTok are suing California to block a law that would protect teenagers from its exploitative and addicted-making features📱
Question: If you’re a parent, how do you navigate social media use with your child/children? 💭
This is your sign to ditch Big Tech and look for alternatives 🔐
More information about ethical alternatives 👉 tuta.com/blog/degoogle-list
Good for the bigtech fighting these laws. Parents should be protecting their children.
If governments want to get involved:
- Educate parents about the dangers online and what to do about it.
- It could regulate the addictive features of social media. The result would be a safer internet for everyone without anyone having to KYC themselves.
- If #2 isn’t an option, force all computer manufactures to add in parental controls that automatically turn off when the user gets to the age of maturity.
I have doubts if any privacy companies are going to advocate for age verification. The very idea is anti-privacy.
Apart from the substantive opinion being wrong…
addicted-making features
dear Tutanota people, just because “süchtigmachend” is the expression in German, doesn’t mean this sounds normal in English, I am not even sure this is comprehensible to English speakers who don’t know German? English has a wonderful word “addictive” for this concept (which, however, is not applicable to Internet use anyway, regardless of the language you are using).
So now people need to look for a proton AND Tuta alternative? How long until the next thing is compromised?
sigh…
what’s up with “privacy” companies making stupid decisions all of a sudden? at least in tuta’s case it can be read as only misguided, but they should know better at this point. opposing big tech’s social media algortihms and draconian age verification aren’t mutually exclusive.
No reason it couldn’t have been a blanket ban for everyone, adults don’t really fare better in my experience. (source: an adult)
No need for nitter, they tooted the same thing on Mastodon.
The ban shouldn’t be children specific. They should ban purposely addictive but not necessary additions to products from the market entirely. Making it children specific just means requiring tracking of everyone to determine their age. It’s so unnecessary unless your real goal is tracking everyone.
Sadly children are so disrespected that governments just have to gesture toward them to do shit like this. I really do hope we come out of this whole thing with a good privacy and user respecting web design law. It really is the only way out of this mess, like you say. The DSA in Europe gave me hope because it is a general user respecting design law, but that was before Von der Leyen strongly pushed for more surveilance instead.
What the actual fuck is with the emoji overload like some AI generated post?!
Big tech doesn’t do shit for anybody but themselves, no law can magically fix that. Their dopamine-driven tactics should be banned everywhere for all ages! While not addictive like nicotine in that sense, it’s still using the same reinforcement to create the addiction.
