We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft@mastodon.social But.. but... that would require parents to actually parent!
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft @nixCraft nah, nah, nah! You can't undermine the whole department of surveillance and control just like this. We're talking about the soil of the earth, our kids, the most precious and innocent elements of the universe. Otherwise we would be forced to talk about hunger problem, housing problem, violence problem. Be serious.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft You are missing that this is not about "protecting" anyone.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft But how is actually protecting kids gonna create honeypots for bitcoin fuelled criminals to plunder? And what about the hard working investors of Palanthir? You want them not to have their Sauron inspired device? That would be awful :3
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft even simpler: *any* corporate accountability. full stop.
bonus: tax the bejesus out of those mofos and give it back to parents for childcare and weekends off work and better schools.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft this is what we’ve done and it seems to work well. No phones til 14yo, screen time requires a tidy room, homework and chores done, and 2x of outside time to compensate.
I guess we aren’t too strict on completing all of the list, but it works out ok.
I always point out to the kids that we don’t have cows to milk at 4am and there’s no fencepost holes to dig, vege garden to deal with, wood to chop, sheep to shear, nor other farm labour which was part of my childhood.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft no, that's way too proactive. You're gonna scare away the big companies and they will do a lot of worse things. Anywho they make our economy so you shouldn't judge! /Sarcasm
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft
That's what we did. We had multiple computers from 1992 and Internet from 1994.
Our kids do the same with their kids.The "protecting the kids" is a lie. It's about surveillance and monetisation of every adult. That's why companies like Meta (Facebook) want it.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft you're missing responsible parents. People don't give a fuck nowadays, they live like animals, just shove that screen into 2yolds hands so you don't have to deal with them.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft You miss the point that the government is corrupt and totalitarian. You can't control or suppress free and sovereign people. That's why "we" need laws to "protect" the kids..
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft follow the money
(I don't have anything concrete, but usually when something this dumb is pushed this hard it only starts to make "sense" once you understand what money flows where how.
See also: Return to office mandates
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft another thing that is missing is the sheer amount of pressure exercised by other childrens parents who do not mind surveillance, ads and trollfarms having free access to their kids.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft Make the creators of content broadcast a flag of mature content. The OS can be configured to read the flag and not load mature content if the adult has turned on content filtering. Problem solved without making private information vulnerable to hackers or corrupt governments.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft Could also, y'know, hold the people actually harming children (like facbook with their predatory & manipulative algorithmic feeds) accountable, instead of attacking privacy.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft
We are doing what my parents did (most likely by happenstance):
Internet-connected family desktop in common room, one account.Any other computers (laptops) not internet connected, curated software.
Phones, not until highschool.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft
ZERO OF THIS IS ABOUT PROTECTING CHILDREN.
Stop wasting energy arguing about the details, this is what they want.ALL OF THIS IS ABOUT STATE SURVEILLANCE.
Powerful people are pissed off that anyone can be anonymous on the internet, and they would like to stop that, so you can be punished for saying things like #EatTheRich and #FuckBillionaires -
We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
@nixCraft Why do you hate privacy and queer people?
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
It *is* hard going against the grain. Well worth it, but to constantly be the only parent making your kids wait until 13 for their first mobile phone, you have to put up with a lot of bullshit from every other parent.
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We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out:
Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability.
How hard is this? What am I missing?
The naive belief that your rules in your house apply anywhere else. My first porn not age appropriate was at my aunts house, it was mixed with age appropriate VHS tapes and we kids were sent to the TV room to give the grown-ups space to talk.
