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!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena Living in France, I'm positively surprised, too! 🤩
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena And I'm gonna guess, that's not yet the strongest argument they could have made. If I'm not mistaken, France considers the right to be informed to be a fundamental freedom, which means that cutting people from social networks could infringe on that freedom as long as some government information is only published there.
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@_elena Living in France, I'm positively surprised, too! 🤩
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena that's good, but now young brains are still canon fodder for algorithmic media.
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena Yes!
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena@mastodon.social at least some legal institutions take #privacy seriously!
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena Such an uplifting story
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena France still has some politicians and judges with an actual spine left. Most European states don’t, unfortunately.
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
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@_elena so maybe now they'll tackle Big Tech like Facebook?
One would hope...
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena Good news indeed!
Glad to see that bad decisions like this still can be overturned.
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@_elena that's good, but now young brains are still canon fodder for algorithmic media.
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena finally someone seeing beyond the ineffective "protect the children" smoke screen and recognizing the broad surveillance/privacy issues.
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
Well, to be honest, every sane person should see the problems with this "age-verification" bullshit. It IS obvious, isn't it?
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Well, to be honest, every sane person should see the problems with this "age-verification" bullshit. It IS obvious, isn't it?
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Indeed. More sanity would be nice.
But I would already be happy if we would apply less insanity to politics.
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena Between this and banning telemarketing, they're on a hot streak lately.
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
Here's the thing: we have destroyed the planet, there's almost no place for kids to go anymore because cars make getting there a very high risk trip and then the "parks" are too small for every kid in the area to be there. There's no more forests for them to explore either. Also it's too hot outside now.
They're online because they're fucking bored and can't go outside. Fic the climate, then the kids will go outside again.
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
@_elena Increasingly, it seems that the only way to protect children is who are online is to financially punish companies for the damage they are doing to children online. That incentive would improve things a lot, even if it would not be perfect.
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Surprising good news from
!"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
The problem here and the discussion here should start at the lack of accountability of the social media big tech companies for the irresponsible content that is hosted. Not with restrictions of users. It is that simple.
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