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?
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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 there are a lot of people who can't and should not have been parents who will not take responsibility for raising another human being.
I say this from experience.
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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 all the parents who don't actually want to parent 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?
@nixCraft You aren't missing anything. That's what we've done with our child. They came out pretty okay.
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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 held off our kids getting smartphones as long as we practically could. Number 1 rule was no devices in their bedrooms including us as parents.
Both our kids are now young adults and they are personally thanking us for our approach.
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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 hard because today children have plenty of "mandatory" screen time, plus imagine a school provided (or bought for games) laptop or tablet)? Some children lucky to have own room and own PC (initially for games).
Sounds like you suggest to return back to shared computer per family/household? Or I missed something? -
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 a child should not have an smartphone until he has 18 years more or less, if he wishes a mobile phone, dumb phones are perfect!
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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..
It's just a salami technique from my point of view. -
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?
