Meta Joins Google In Turning Its Back On The Open Web, And Embracing Unconstitutional Mandates That Pretend To ‘Protect The Children’::A month ago we wrote about Google effectively “pulling up the ladder” on the open internet by embracing age verification mandates as part of a regulatory approach to child safety. As we pointed out at the time, this is bizarre and stupid for a variety of reasons, but also not too surprising. It’s bizarre because…
Using children as a prop is the same bullshit the EU tried not 6 months ago. Police your kids, not everyone else.
Oh, the EU is still pushing through that anti-encryption shit. It didn’t go away.
As a former teacher, advisor to a state attorney general, and now an executive at Meta — I’ve dedicated my career to protecting children online.
That’s an awfully strange pathway to executive at Meta.
That looks like the standard “this person has pull with the AG, let’s hire them and exploit that for our benefit” move.
Aren’t these the same guys who have an unenforced policy on minors using their platform? Gosh if they didn’t protect the kids then what’s with the change of heart now?
Oh, right, protectionist policies.
Gotta protect the children from thing like boobs and the word fuck so they can get them started on what really matters, becoming hopelessly addicted to a social media platform to drive advertising revenue.
WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN
Oh great! Now I have to create a new alt Facebook and gmail account every 18 years? How many more Alt lives do I have to keep creating. This is getting ridiculous!
Good thing I don’t use or support anything made by Google or Meta. Chrome and all Chromium browsers, Any Android flavor.
Apple aint much better.
Might I remember about the CSAM stuff they tried to do?I hope you have a OSS type of phone running linux.
True but they stopped
For now at least.
Obscenity is not protected by the first amendment.
Profanity is though
I’m happy with age verification. I don’t GAF about whether it’s unconstitutional cos I’m not American and I don’t GAF about the 200 year old opinion of dead revolutionaries
Sov-cit?
Use your words
