Widerstehen Sie „gefährlichen und gesellschaftlich inakzeptablen“ Altersüberprüfungen für soziale Medien, warnen Wissenschaftler
https://www.politico.eu/article/age-check-social-media-scientist-warning/
Von insomnimax_99
Widerstehen Sie „gefährlichen und gesellschaftlich inakzeptablen“ Altersüberprüfungen für soziale Medien, warnen Wissenschaftler
https://www.politico.eu/article/age-check-social-media-scientist-warning/
Von insomnimax_99
13 Kommentare
It’s easy – any age check that is not from my government and the app goes bye-bye
Disagree but hear what they are saying, but only sensible solution otherwise is restrict internet access, like we do drink and drugs.
Fuck social media ban under 16!
We wouldn’t have the problem if parents wouldn’t let their children into the internet in the first place. There is absolutely no reason someone younger than 14 should have unsupervised access to the internet. But nowadays everything needs to be digital and we have somehow convinced ourselves, that the ability to download your homework and then upload your work into the school cloud, somehow justifies all the other problems.
The solution is to disband social media companies and their respective platforms. Social media hasn’t contributed to the good of society in any capacity. Forcing ID checks, age verification, and restrictions does nothing to actually contain and/or regulate these insidious platforms.
The social media experiment was a dud. Move on.
Pretty much the same about religion.
They need you young.
F you for making me click on politico link
Here’s what it says: „Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.“
Why? „“We share the concerns about the negative effects that exposure to harmful content online has on children,” the academics write. But current plans “would require all users to prove their age … A robust age verification system would require checking “government-issued IDs with strong cryptographic protection for every single interaction with the service,” the academics write. Such infrastructure is not only hard to build and maintain on a global scale, but would add friction in services, meaning many providers would refuse to install age checks.Using technologies like cryptography to solve the problem risks centralizing tools in the hands of the few companies that can deploy them at scale, the experts warn.“
The objections don’t sound very science based.
Friendly reminder that the Heritage Foundation is one of the actors behind the big push for mandatory age verification.
And I personally agree that children shouldn’t have access to social media, but that goal shouldn’t be achieved with tools that can eliminate anonymity or be used by malicious governments to restrict access.
I think people would be surprised what % of the stupid political stuff you see online is written by children. Seems like a good thing to limit social media for society
Age restrictions need to be device possession / access, not dangerous spyware. There is no realistic path to safe, privacy protecting remote age verification.
Children should have access to the internet in the following ways: filtered access at schools / libraries, filtered and/or monitored access on family PCs, and age restricted devices which should also show more judgment when / how they are used. Is there a chance a friend whose parents don’t care shows them something on their phone? Sure, but that’s a much more limited risk.
This won’t be exactly perfect, like drinking or drugs, but right now the societal norm is that parents supply infinite ‚hard liquor‘ no questions asked to their own children and wonder what is wrong. It costs $0 and takes 0 minutes to not give your child an unrestricted smartphone. You can achieve this goal while unconscious! It’s not unreasonable to ask parents to do the bare minimum and we can use supportive services (PSAs, helpful social services interactions) or punitive services to move this forward.
Since when has a government done anything that people are proud of, especially when it involves collecting personal information (at some point that turns into something evil).
Socially unacceptable to whom? Social media is straight up crack for kids and I think it is acceptable to have age restrictions on that kind of addictive brain rot. Lot of countries are starting to enact these restrictions and its not coming out of nowhere. After 20 years of social media in society its become apparent what the deleterious developmental effects on kids are of social media addiction, hence the societal reactions now cropping up. If it weren’t causing major problems societies would nit the feel to introduce these measures.