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Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint and would kill anonymity, Proton CEO says (proton.me)
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Online threats to children are real, but the headlong pursuit of age verification that we’re seeing around the world is unacceptable in its approach and far too broad in scope — and we simply can’t afford to get this wrong.

To be clear, parents’ concerns are valid and sincere. Few people would argue that kids should have unfettered access to adult material, to self-harm how-tos, to social media platforms that manipulate them and expose them to abuse.

But it’s the very depth of those worries that is being cynically exploited. Age verification as is currently being proposed in country after country would mean the death of anonymity online.

And we know exactly who stands to gain: The same tech giants who built the privacy nightmare that the internet is today.

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[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

There's two ways to view what you just said there. Parents aren't parenting, but you can't speak for someone elses emotions about it. And it's more constructive to a problem (rather than adding to it) to ask why, to figure out what's happening, with compassion, so as to help it be repaired.

Here's another example, drug addicts, quite often you will hear people judging and shaming their behaviours, without asking why, or looking at their choices with compassion and an eye to repair the problems for them. Most often, very very abused children, grow up to self medicate their internal agony, caused by what they've lived through. You wouldn't then choose locking them up in jail to help repair.

You're talking about kids, maybe some of them go on to be these same drug addicts.

I would suggest this whole problem with the unsupervised parenting / disconnected parenting is capitalism. And it's by design.

People have kids (mostly) because they want them, they love them. I would argue very few would want to be parenting poorly. So why are they?

Could it be that there's no opportunity to stay home and raise kids. Raising kids, is work, and it is hard work, has been so hugely devalued, intentionally, so as to be able to remove it as needing space in people's lives. Who thinks it's admirable to stay home and raise kids? That is an opinion that has been societally planted, to serve the bourgeois.

Actual paid work, who can live without working? Multiple jobs, even. That's also by design.

Capitalism also designed this system we are all currently using, of a family in a singular home. It wasn't like that, previously. So no village, no desperately needed support for raising kids.

Jobs burn you out, we aren't designed to live like this, but there's little to no flexibility, and parenting burns you out, and theres little to no support for that, now. Who has energy left after that, to also find all the ways in which tech is attacking this week.

I would argue, partially, the solve for poor parenting, would be to start rolling out some guillotines.

But also, raising a kid is supposed to be the job of a village, I'm sure you've heard that. To be a good parent, you need a full tank, but all the avenues for refilling your tank have been removed.

We should all care about fixing this, it is our next generation. I don't believe hating on the singular parents trapped in this hellhole, is the answer.