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Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.

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[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

These laws are dangerous, kids are going to sneak a peek at adult things and when they do going to pornhub is far safer than having to avoid strong filters by joining a private discord group full of creepy old guys.

Honestly these laws are a groomers dream, keeping kids naive and then funnelling them in to poorly moderated or purposely immoral porn sharing communities creates actual dangers which aren't present when a teenager sees some videos from the front page of pornhub.

What we actually need to do it have real conversations about things

[–] skymtf@pricefield.org -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how this "sticking it to big tech" is also funded by big tech. The general goal of someone like Facebook with this legislation is pass a bunch of rules that only large companies like them can comply with, and watch mastodon instances and other attempts to detrown them end in FBI raids and more regulations.

[–] skymtf@pricefield.org 0 points 1 year ago

Not to mention none of this will actually protect children. When I was 14 I told an adult online about my life and they helped me make it through some rougher periods until I got to 18. I know the internet is highly imperfect but I think gate keeping kids out of it will just lead to more underground abuse and abuse that they don't find was abuse until they are adults.