I wish I could force every legislator in favor of Age Verification to watch this amazing talk by Carissa Véliz,

[autistic_writer@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon My biggest worry here is when they'll turn their claws to the Fediverse. Because they will if they see an opportunity. Like dogs smelling raw meat.

[swift@sunny.garden]

@Em0nM4stodon irony is that to watch the video I have to sign into /up-to google.

#YouTube is a big part of the problem.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@swift Yeah, I'm definitely not a big fan of that either. If you use a VPN like I do, sometimes changing server solves this problem. I don't have a YouTube account, so I only watch videos while signed out. I always end up being able to watch (so far), using a different server.

I wish this video was also accessible from PeerTube.

[swift@sunny.garden]

@Em0nM4stodon right. I tried a few countries but I didn't get anywhere.

I think people need to be making more of a thing about this; so many people choose to ignore the rushing control and censorship of YouTube, as if it's not run by google.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@swift Agreed. I'm very afraid we will soon lose access to very valuable content if creators do not make their work available on open non-commercial platforms like PeerTube. So much more people need to care and be aware of this danger, and of the censorship power YouTube/Google has.

[zauruss@mas.to]

@Em0nM4stodon
I see how it’s related, but I think we are mixing the two topics: 1. Kids shouldn’t have access to social media. 2. Privacy.
I think big companies are trying us to get stuck in the second topic as if it was the main point but it’s not. What some governments are trying to do is to stop our kids to get access to something that has proven to be addictive and toxic.
We can discuss the how, but it is a fallacy to say that we can’t protect kids without killing privacy

[kevinashworth@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon @swift

Dear @tedtalks, this is something you need to do: Allow your content to be watched free from the G.

[x41h@infosec.exchange]

@Em0nM4stodon she didn't mention anything about America after WWII bringing all the Nazis to US and now the tremendous surge in data collection. Coincidence.... Cofcof Palantir

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@Em0nM4stodon

Age verification for kids means ID verification for everyone. The loss of anonymity and privacy would be systemic. Fucking dolts.

[powerfromspace1@mstdn.social]

@Em0nM4stodon all ️

[jbiserkov@mas.to]

@Em0nM4stodon
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@swift @Em0nM4stodon hmmm, i didn't? I don't even have an account.

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@Em0nM4stodon I'm not sure I 100% agree with *the beginning of* her third item. I still think it's a matter of degrees. The same tech that can automatically recognize people in FB I can use it to recognize people in my own set of photographs in my own network for my own use. Of course, FB has a different scale and more tech around that basic tech.

[swift@sunny.garden]

@mdione @Em0nM4stodon and such is their arbitrary power

[tcatinreality@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon

Of course, we need data privacy.

But is your point that age verification is what is driving the surveillance economy?

Because that's absurd.

[sayonaraminasan@urusai.social]

@Em0nM4stodon thanks for sharing this, very important information that all need to hear.

[tcatinreality@mastodon.social]

@zardoz03 @Em0nM4stodon

Sure, it is one of thousands of attacks on data privacy.

But it is the only one that helps hold techbros accountable for the harms their products cause (vs others that are purely profit-driven).