Prime minister wants young people to be shielded from ‘power of the algorithm’
Great hope it helps
Yeah, sure, man. I haven’t looked much into social media when I was 13, and had seen porn ads and ran into surprise things. Looking back, I don’t think I needed this nanny thing.
I was jailbreaking my iPod when I was 11 and bypassing school computer restrictions. This isn’t stopping anyone. I think even a vpn would simply bypass this
I am less concerned with stopping young people from accessing the web then with general awareness of people about the damaging mental side effects of technology.
Those side effects are usually long term, an account and a few online interactions wont harm much. But a habit will.
If my kids hacks trough my infrastructure i will shine with IT pride… and then update my infrastructure explaining them why it is i am so concerned.
I know they will find ways outside my walled garden but keeping them in was never the point, providing a safe space to live to develop healthy habits is.
you’d be surprised at the technical capability of phone generations rather than pc generations
They may require real-world credentials for account creation to prevent that from happening.
She said the government was investigating methods of enforcing such restrictions that did not intervene with human rights, such as the requirement for a bank account.
It also gives parents assurance that they arent crazy for wanting to limit their kids access to these hell sites.
These parents should realize that they might run into it.
In a couple (maybe most at this point idk) EU countries you can use your ID in combination with your phones NFC and an open source app to prove certain parameters like age to sites, without giving up any identifying information. This is what should be used here and not fucking bank accounts.
“This legislation is sponsored and brought to you by our good friends over at NordVPN…”
(Joke made to sound like the standard Youtuber sponsor intro)
1 - Those age restrictions work about as well as a gate with no fence
2 - Teaching kids about the dangers of social media and introducing them properly, rather than expecting them to simply abstain because the law says so (a historically very effective technique /s), would be a whole lot more productive.
kids will easily find ways around this, and social medias will facilitate it
aka nothing will change whatsoever
Properly motivated ones will find a way around it. Those just clicking out of habit might not be assed to. If the whole point is zoning out, being asked to perform intellectual labour to access it is counterproductive to the urge.
yea, one properly motivated one will figure out how to do it, then show all the can’t be assed ones
That’s like putting a bandaid on a sucking chest wound.
Why we continue to allow every intelligence agency, gang and terrorist organization in the entire world to have a direct line of access to our whole population is beyond me, and it’s hard to explain away without assuming malice from those running our own societies.
I have no problem giving everyone access to means of socializing online. We have or have had BBS, Usenet, IRC and many more ways to do this. The problem with “social media”, IMHO, are the algorithms and addictive design concepts as well as the fact that these platforms are designed to extract as much information from the user as possible. The information provided is not the product, the user is.
