Or, and I know this is going to sound crazy, regulate the social media companies to make them responsible for the content on their websites.
Banning kids doesn’t work. They simply use a workaround. Do law makers not remember what it was like to be a kid, or adults telling them not to do something.
Yes but this would require intelligent legislature and risks pissing off Big Tech. Far easier to make a few vague proclamations and then throw public funds at more useless age verification tech instead.
Why wouldn’t it be okay to piss off Big Tech? That’s part of the point. They can either change their ways or fuck off. Governments and people are not the playthings of Big Tech. Intelligent legislature and legislation that is applicable to future technology would be a sensible approach rather than just the tech of current times.
Doing things the right way is difficult, and I don’t trust governments to do things that might piss off Big Tech because of all the money tied up in that sector. Politicians seem more interested in appeasing the Musks and Zucks of the world than in actually helping people. So it goes.
Or, and I know this is going to sound crazy, regulate the social media companies to make them responsible for the content on their websites.
Banning kids doesn’t work. They simply use a workaround. Do law makers not remember what it was like to be a kid, or adults telling them not to do something.
How to kill the internet
I highly doubt kids these days are as tech literate as kids 20 or 30 years ago.
they are as tech literate as boomers are, according to most studies.
they are used to be spoonfed information and entertainment and can’t distinguish between either.
Yes but this would require intelligent legislature and risks pissing off Big Tech. Far easier to make a few vague proclamations and then throw public funds at more useless age verification tech instead.
Why wouldn’t it be okay to piss off Big Tech? That’s part of the point. They can either change their ways or fuck off. Governments and people are not the playthings of Big Tech. Intelligent legislature and legislation that is applicable to future technology would be a sensible approach rather than just the tech of current times.
To be clear, I was being sardonic.
Doing things the right way is difficult, and I don’t trust governments to do things that might piss off Big Tech because of all the money tied up in that sector. Politicians seem more interested in appeasing the Musks and Zucks of the world than in actually helping people. So it goes.
Oh let’s absolutely piss off big tech, starting by removing anti-circumvention laws.
That’s like making ISPs responsible for content passing through their network. Not a fan of this approach.