2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
@imbl I am also shocked at this, it’s also really concerning how the non tech people literally don’t care about more and more ridiculous things like this happening. For example in Germany we had a law trying to enforce scanning of *every single chatmessage* send through for example WhatsApp and if the ai which scans it finds cp, sends the entire chat history to the police. And well lots of people played it of saying „well I have nothing to hide so they can really good do that“. No one was against fighting cp but tech people called it out as way overboard, also the German police was already trying to do things like „well if we already have that system we could also use it for other legal things“ which in the wrong hands can have horrible consequences. I hope the discord thing was maybe some sort of wake up call.
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
@imbl I saw this in a booklet my son was given. I had to photograph it so I could be sure this really was the standard advice and guard against gaslighting.
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
Good way to put it
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
@imbl being legally required to identify children could make it weirdly easier for what Epstein has built up...
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
@imbl also make sure your profile pic is you standing in front of your home, preferably with numbers visible
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
@imbl
may I presume to add a corollary?1984; self thinking robots are evil and will eventually enslave humanity
(coincidence this came out in 1984?)2026; self thinking robots are unavoidable, will take over humanity, but hey at least we wont have to work anymore!
#eattherich #ai slop will ruin the planet and take your jobs; the billionaire overlords have spoken
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
@imbl but only to corporations. They never would have any interest in exploiting that information
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
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@lispi314 @reiddragon @imbl i think at this point if you see a random stranger say "pedophile" you can safely assume it is intentionally being used synonymously with "chomo"
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Yeah, things change.
In 2003, platforms were largely benign and parents needed to watch out for individuals.
In 2026, the platforms have optimised their algorithms to bring danger to children so government needs to regulate the platforms' access
@TCatInReality @imbl in 2026, the platforms and the apparatus legally regulating them are owned by the exact sort of individuals that are a threat to children -
@lispi314 @reiddragon @imbl oh yeah it's awful, just circling back to the stupidest mob instinct of "kill the dirty badwrong people" in place of any rational attempt to hold people who do bad things responsible and also remove them from and keep them out of positions where they do those things
but given *these* particular sorts we're talking about i figured i'd pick my battles -
2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
the common thread here is you must trust the corpos and distrust your neighbors
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
@imbl
Nearly every draconian policy is framed from the perspective of "Think of the children!" -
@TCatInReality @imbl in 2026, the platforms and the apparatus legally regulating them are owned by the exact sort of individuals that are a threat to children
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
@imbl what about the 90s?
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2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety
2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety
@imbl 2003: you shouldn't follow shady links in e-mails, and such e-mails are probably SPAM or worse
2026: you need to follow shady links in e-mails, and even Google deploys that in legitimate messages
Thank you, Google
[This is a blog post that I wrote back in October, but forgot to post. Probably because even I found it to be too boring, but since I wrote it, I guess you have to read it. That’s just fair.]…
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