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How Mark Zuckerberg is flipping the script on kids' safety online

by c420 on 4/20/25, 11:35 PM with 6 comments

• by southernplaces7 on 4/21/25, 3:25 AM

  If I've ever seen a manipulative canard for online censorship and increased surveillance, it's this notion that digital platforms need to actively "protect" kids from accessing supposedly harmful content through ID checks, age verifications and other monitoring tools. Can none of you see that for what it is and all the avenues for bureaucratic/regulatory abuses that it presents?

  Aside from Zuckerberg being a scumbag in assorted ways, the politicians and private groups rooting for these sorts of enforcement mechanisms are either foolish or pandering in one cynically grotesque way to absurd moral scares that will do nothing to make the internet much safer, better or more free.

• by tw04 on 4/21/25, 12:58 AM

  Ahh yes, it's not on the trillion dollar company to have ANY responsibility on what their apps do to civil society. We MUST foist it back onto the parents, the very same parents that Google wants to see working 60 hours a week, to diligently patrol every waking hour of their children's day.

  https://gizmodo.com/googles-sergey-brin-says-engineers-shoul...

  Up next: Zuck explaining why vaping ads and product targeting grade schoolers should be legal, it's really on parents to stop their children from falling for it.

• by nofalsescotsman on 4/20/25, 11:41 PM

  Zuck and his ilk are ghouls.

• by ivape on 4/21/25, 1:34 AM

  I sort of agree with it. We put age verification on porn sites, what else can you do? Your kids are not supposed to be on this shit. There's endless varieties of inappropriate content on social media, there's no way you can police it all. This is good for indie developers also who can resolve a lot of liability by simply age restricting their social apps.