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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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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 good news
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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 A nice surprise. I had to read it on 5 different sites before I believed it.
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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 German news still reports on this like it would only affect kids.
Nobody asks themselves how they know whether a user is an adult or not.
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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.
And the moral panic about harm to children when the harm to everybody is apparent
These companies are vulnerable to regulation because they must sell advertising in every market they operate in.
We could make them open their algorithms.
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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 words 'Constitutional Council' look extremely attractive to UK ears, where we don't even have real democratic elections.
Electoral reform is long overdue in dis-United Kingdom
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@pst @NatureMC @_elena I think you are missreading the situation.
In France there are few elected people believing the Great Chinese Firewall would be nice to have. There are also listening black boxes in the main general public ISP datacenters monitoring the population traffic since 2015. France has been very inventive to avoid EU penalities with them.
It's not a question that French gov doesn't want to monitor the population, because there are law proposals like that every few years. It's more that there are very few people still thinking that laws should be fair at some of the right places.
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@_elena German news still reports on this like it would only affect kids.
Nobody asks themselves how they know whether a user is an adult or not.
@Stefan_S_from_H @_elena everyone will be defaulted to be a 12 year old unless they show some ID. Like in a bottle shop. Or a trans clinic under 19. or else
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We shouldβ¦
Society cannot allow the manipulation of its citizens by fully untransparant algorithms and methods and by rogue state and other actors on these platforms that are affecting democratic processes and promote instability by spreading lies, propaganda and fake news, because that is what is going on. The social media providing these platforms need to be held accountable to prevent these unacceptable situations. It is that simple. Only then change will come!
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