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Meta Joins Google In Turning Its Back On The Open Web, And Embracing Unconstitutional Mandates That Pretend To ‘Protect The Children’ (www.techdirt.com)

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Meta Joins Google In Turning Its Back On The Open Web, And Embracing Unconstitutional Mandates That Pretend To ‘Protect The Children’::A month ago we wrote about Google effectively “pulling up the ladder” on the open internet by embracing age verification mandates as part of a regulatory approach to child safety. As we pointed out at the time, this is bizarre and stupid for a variety of reasons, but also not too surprising. It’s bizarre because…

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 91 points 2 years ago

Using children as a prop is the same bullshit the EU tried not 6 months ago. Police your kids, not everyone else.

[-] Zpiritual@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Oh, the EU is still pushing through that anti-encryption shit. It didn't go away.

[-] PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works 74 points 2 years ago

As a former teacher, advisor to a state attorney general, and now an executive at Meta — I’ve dedicated my career to protecting children online.

That’s an awfully strange pathway to executive at Meta.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

That looks like the standard "this person has pull with the AG, let's hire them and exploit that for our benefit" move.

[-] SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago

It's not if you follow the money.

[-] bladerunnerspider@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

Aren't these the same guys who have an unenforced policy on minors using their platform? Gosh if they didn't protect the kids then what's with the change of heart now?

Oh, right, protectionist policies.

[-] bfg9k@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN

[-] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

I remember the Adult section of Waptrik back in the day

[-] Wilibus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Gotta protect the children from thing like boobs and the word fuck so they can get them started on what really matters, becoming hopelessly addicted to a social media platform to drive advertising revenue.

[-] burntbutterbiscuits@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Oh great! Now I have to create a new alt Facebook and gmail account every 18 years? How many more Alt lives do I have to keep creating. This is getting ridiculous!

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Good thing I don’t use or support anything made by Google or Meta. Chrome and all Chromium browsers, Any Android flavor.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago

Apple aint much better.
Might I remember about the CSAM stuff they tried to do?

I hope you have a OSS type of phone running linux.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Apple is scary not because what they do, they're doing great, but what they can do once PR departament allows.

They massively block some kind of apps (like they blocked VPNs in China) and what would houndreds of millions of people do? Throw away their expensive phones? And go buy, what, the one from Google?

[-] jaidyn999@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

Obscenity is not protected by the first amendment.

[-] xcjs@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

What is obscene is subjective.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Profanity is though

[+] kaffiene@lemmy.world -35 points 2 years ago

I'm happy with age verification. I don't GAF about whether it's unconstitutional cos I'm not American and I don't GAF about the 200 year old opinion of dead revolutionaries

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 years ago

It's possible to implement parental controls without breaching the users privacy. For example, a website could have a tag saying it's for adults only and the browser could check this fully on the client side, and parents would just need to press a checkbox in the configuration to use it. Google has enough clout to pull it off through Chrome, the fact they don't proves that this is not about the children but a justification to collect more private data.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Google can do what it likes with Chrome, sure. What about Firefox, Edge, Safari and the others?

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Edge is basically Chrome anyway, and Google proposes new web standards all the time.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yes I know about Edge. Brave is also based on Chrome but removes all the data gathering features they don't like, so your observation is rather meaningless. Yes, Google proposes Web standards all the time. They've had proposals rejected all the time as well. W3C is not a Google dictatorship. Not by a long shot.

[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Sov-cit?

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Use your words

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