Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

  • I don’t think parents, most of who have a job and don’t keep their kids under surveillance 24/7, can hope to compete with dozens of corporations with whole teams dedicated to making their platform addictive. I view the parental responsibility in the same way I view carbon footprints: a way to shift blame from corporations to individuals. I think this view also leads to individual-focused solutions that surveil people (age checks, etc) rather than systemic ones that regulate corporations.

    • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      Agreed. They need to direct their ire toward the corporations instead of my (and everyone else’s) freedoms.

      I said this somewhere else, but I was just being facetious. I think it’s funny to turn the conservative mentality against conservative movements lol