Definitely. It would make life better in so many ways if everyone did this.

I heard Facebook was funding this in the US. Not sure if they’re responsible for it elsewhere too. It’s basically Five Eyes countries doing this, so you can bet it’s to do with their surveillance efforts. How do we stop it? First step is not to comply. Do not complete any age verification. If you are absolutely forced to, at least lodge complaints about it. If you are still required to, try to avoid giving any data, e.g. use a pre-recorded video of someone else or a videogame character to pass the age check. Second step is to use and support alternative platforms that avoid such measures.

I guess people with this interpretation think pedophiles and mass murderers are great then

Yup. This applies to every technology post-enlightenment technology. We didn’t need cars, we didn’t need the internet, we didn’t need phones, we didn’t need TV, we didn’t need X-rays, we didn’t need pharmaceuticals, we didn’t need automated production and we certainly don’t need anything to think for us.

Welcome to the resistance

I’m not complaining about the lack of upvotes, just I don’t see why it’s getting promoted to your front page

Weird. You can see they don’t have that many upvotes. It wasn’t my intention to spam anyone’s feed.

But I don’t see any of my posts on all. The most any of them has right now is 59 points, which is hardly a lot. And when I post them how would I know they are going to be popular and flood people’s feeds? I wasn’t expecting them to be very popular.

There’s lots of communities with the same purpose on different instances. Why shouldn’t I post to all those that apply?

Both are bad

Exactly

They recently used AI to translate a lot of code to Rust. Thought it sounded like a neat project right until then.

I know what you mean. But it doesn’t have to be that way if enough people walk away and decide to do something positive instead.

Do you think he understands everyone else’s though processes? Presumably if you were surrounded by guys like him then you would be able to comprehend the way they think.

This reminds me of that quote

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Now imagine it’s your children too.

Very true. And we have to remember that our own views are informed by years of study/observation in areas other people will not have paid any attention to. So often it would take a book worth of real life examples to give someone the same background experience, and they would have to read that book carefully over many months for those examples to sink in, and still then they might think those are cherry-picked examples, whereas you came across them organically.

Thanks for the inside view. I never knew a lot of the survey takers came from mobile games or that spending could be tracked.

They’re already regulating social media…in all the wrong ways. Age verification is just the start.

They could have an AI tweak the statistics if they seem unrealistic