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Like hell me, my 1 friend and my half working Matrix server are.
It's a great way to kill those products. That's maybe the only upside.
Maybe that's his goal.
Fucking Peter literally creating the very monster he claims to hate.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Abandon all of these platforms and any others that associate in any way with Palantir or Thiel
Almost wish I could be part of the exodus, but I use none of these
Good
The problem is that millions do, and won't understand what the big deal is, and be sucked into the fucking psyop vortex.
Few powerful people deciding everything and millions falling in line and the few outliers being affected even if they opt out due to decisions of millions of others who support the few powerful sums up the world.
Indeed. It’s like so many people have been trained to be asleep at the wheel.
Many don't have the capacity left to make conscious decisions about these things - either they are already living paycheck to paycheck or it is too abstract for them to realize it might bite them and everyone else on a future date. Even if i have ideas for the first group that I have no power to make reality, I don't have a solution for the second group either.
FUCK THE SYSTEM!
With the unlubed, thorny, gritty, legendary dildo of consequences!
And a squirt of lemon
That is so strange.
If people cared about "the children" they wouldn't let them on the Internet until they were 21.
If people cared about humanity they wouldn't allow "the algorithms" to exist or let social media or news media exist they way it does now.
I don’t think that’s the solution though, kids (including teens to some extent) can be on the internet but it requires better parenting. It’s better to monitor what they are doing online until they are like 15 or 16, maybe 17 if you have a really good reason too. Limit screen time, be around to answer questions your kid has about what they might see.
Little kids though? Absolutely should be off the internet. Anyone under 10 shouldn’t be on the internet period in my opinion. 10-12 is kinda a gray zone to me where it’s definitely up to the parents and if they think their child is ready.
My nephew has a new baby. Her parents are constantly waving their phones in her face; sending pics back and forth; generally doing 'millenial things' with their phones when not actively attending the baby. Then proceed to get all freaked out when the baby expresses interest or curiosity in the phone.
Kids mimic their parents behavior and interests. If you want kids with healthy internet use, you have to have parents model healthy internet use.
Also since they weren’t allowed on the internet till they were 21, those 21 year olds won’t know how to act on the internet. So now there’s 21 year olds roaming around who will need to figure all that shit out. They might get other aspects of being an adult but the internet will be completely alien.
It’s like when I saw people saying kids shouldn’t be allowed into the grocery store because someone was annoyed that kids didn’t know how to behave there yet. You just create a new and larger problem where adults don’t know how to act.
The internet has been out for less time than some people have been alive. Are we sure we, as a species, know how to be an adult on the internet yet?
Free speech has been out for as long as humanity has existed, and every attempt at limiting it has ended badly.
Not really. Free speech is a cultural construct. It doesn’t exist without a huge swath of pre-agreed norms regarding rights, speech, freedom, … I’ll have you know, there are modern philosophers who argue against human rights. They would say human rights language pretends to be objective and universal, but it floats without a metaphysical anchor (unlike in the past) and in practice they only exist if a sovereign power recognizes them.
It is far more complicated. The brain develops slowly while social media provides constant dopamine hits leading to doom scrolling and the part of the brain that is tasked with hitting the brakes is just not there
Yes social media is a problem, however that alone does not justify banning everyone under 21 from using the entire internet. As the person who I replied to said they wanted.
Social media is its own problem that’s needs regulations to come under control.
If people cared about “the children” they wouldn’t let them on the Internet until they were 21.
I faintly recall there were then a few people who criticized Gore's idea of opening up the Internet to the public.
Thats going to finally break my reddit addition, and ill bet any amount of money im not alone.
Lemmy is better anyway.
the API fiasco forced me off, so im glad I had a 2 year start on federation
go through and edit your comments to be gibberish before you delete your acccount
They'll undo it. Go look at mine that shouldn't exist.
You could piss off the admins big time and they'll ban and suspend all your accounts using advanced methods to connect them across different emails or even if you signed up anonymously, and not a single thing you ever wrote on there will ever be visible to the world again. Ask me how I know.
Can you make them think I'm you? I'd be very appreciative.
Mine stayed
Or subtlely wrong just to break the AI that's lining Spez' pockets.
Not a bad idea. But AI is already subtly wrong as is. Just fill it with barely plausible sounding but completely garbage text,
Idea bad, not. AI subtly already is wrong as. Text with plausible garbage fill.
There should be an algorithmic way to do that starting from the posts/comments original text.
when are they rolling that shit out on AI-slop-CSAM-central aka twitter?
My kid wants to be verified on Roblox sooooooo bad so he can defend himself against trolls. It’s actually been a good lesson in ignoring those idiots like water off a ducks back.
Why would you let him interact with randoms?
Like. "Trolls" are the least of your worries here.
Right... It's like letting you kid run around times square in the 70/80s with no guardian.
The parents probably post their photos on FB and social media too.
You don't understand, he said not to go anywhere with anyone... Unless they're nice
/s
I guess I'm compelled not to use Roblox, Reddit or Discord, then.
for Roblox, at least, you're not missing out. If I wanted to get fleeced by a bunch of pedophiles and bigots, I'd check out the next RNC gathering.
Over my dead body. These services can go fuck themselves and die.
