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Meta lobbies US Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits (www.reuters.com)
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[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The problem isn't that Meta employed too few techniques to figure out if somebody was a child. The problem is they employed so much surveillance that they incidentally found out people were children and then they decided to abuse and exploit that information to their fiscal advantage.

It's an important distinction. I don't think we should encourage companies to collect detailed 3D scans of people's faces or their ID cards just to verify their ~~identity~~ age.