• iii
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    7 days ago

    We share a similar view, I think.

    Although I have an additional fear. It is known that block listing (everyone but Y, Y being children here) is an ineffective cybersecurity strategy. What does work is allow listing (everyone must identify themselves, gatekeeper maintains a list of who is allowed in).

    Enforcing the existance of such a tool, and having the allow list be at the mercy of political figures, now and in the future, is a scary idea to me.

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      7 days ago

      Oh our government/s have always been very big on progressing the surveillance state in the name of saving children, this is either another step toward that or it’s a huge waste of time that will never be enforceable.

      I’m pretty confident it’s just for surveillance.

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      Yup, beyond scary, it’s terrifying.

      Social media presents an array of worrisome problems, with (so far as I can see) only worrisome solutions. Children’s access isn’t even the #1 issue, for me — it’s social media’s Musky ability to flood the world with lies and hate at levels never seen in human history.

      And there’s no solution that’s not worrisome, but democracy can’t survive with an intentionally misinformed electorate.