• Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    Good intentions without the spirit of cooperation or respect for consent is still evil.

    The main problem with all of these internet surveillance tools being marketed as ways to protect children is that people are engaging with them on that basis.

    As far as I’m concerned they haven’t done anything to establish that they actually intend to protect children or that this is a reasonable way to do it. This seems like a solution to a different problem that ignores all of the problems it creates.

    Parents should be responsible for their children. A random website creator shouldn’t have to be responsible for your children.

    Websites aren’t stores where people walk in off of a public street. They are services that people reach out to and engage with specifically and intentionally. If we can address the non-consensual non-intentionality part of internet tracking and surveillance a lot of this stuff goes away. So maybe rather than regulating the website to protect your children we should be regulating the website to protect consent.

    • Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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      8 hours ago

      I don’t agree that the legislators left the spirit of cooperation or respect for consent out because they are evil, I think they left them out because they are ignorant. I think they are inexperienced with both technology and social media and have failed to appropriately engage people that might have helped them come up with a functional solution rather than an ineffective brute force.

      I do however agree with everything else you’ve said above.