Cool. We did this in Australia, 75% of kids circumvented it. It's a waste of time.
Unless you're doing it for the facial data, which you probably are.
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More than just facial data, doing it for all the data, to build secret social scores on us. Run by the worst people in the world like palantir.
Wonder how many (real)people will vanish from the internet when OS level surveillance is mandated to the point nowhere is safe, no OS is safe. You know the bots will continue on regardless
They've made a free, state-owned, anonymous age-verifcation API for this purpose right? They're not requiring Meta to confirm your real identity, riiiiight?
Just like all the other countries implementing this in lock step now that their techno fascist financiers in the Epstein class have given them their marching orders to implement big brother.
rightly so. there are many substances banned for kids like alcohol and cigarettes because of much greater potential for physical harm. like wise its right to protect them physiologically. social media run by parasites in big tech are only going to harm them mentally.
look into how meta targeted teens who deleted their selfie after uploading with ads for most snake oil cosmetics.
Meta is also promoting the age gating of the internet, because it benefits their surveillance capitalism business model.
The problem isn't banning children from accessing social media or porn. The problem is that all these laws implement this by invading everyone's privacy โ handing over your personal info and browsing data to techno fascists and data brokers โ instead of specifying zero knowledge proofs or other anonymous methods.
By promoting this without such measures, you are advocating on behalf of meta and other techno fascists for even greater mass surveillance, and greater risks to everyone, including kids.
They know that, they are playing us.
People are too caught up fighting the systems that are being put in place to address these that many completely dismiss the underlying reasoning:
Children are more impressionable and so every entity on the Internet is looking to influence them... people selling products and people pushing ideologies are all targeting children and there is a measurable effect on their mental health.
Yeah, these age verification laws are bullshit and ineffective. They're pushed by companies who want to control the access to children ($$$) and gather even more data on everyone else.
That doesn't change the underlying problem that needs to be solved. Children are targets for manipulation by every kind of bad person or group and something needs to be done to address that harm.
yeah, its disgusting that targeted advertising is not illegal. same with targeting senior citizens with falsely proclaiming drugs and cure. these so called tech companies are just digital pimps for scammers.
the right thing will be obviously to do complete ban on any data collection for profiling as well and lengthy jail time for entire c-suite doing or facilitating targeted ads. but with close to 300 billion yearly revenue at stake they will rather nuke half the earth than let that law pass.
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