From Twitter/X:
Big Tech companies block law that would protect children 😡🚩
Google, Meta and TikTok are suing California to block a law that would protect teenagers from its exploitative and addicted-making features📱
Question: If you’re a parent, how do you navigate social media use with your child/children? 💭
This is your sign to ditch Big Tech and look for alternatives 🔐
More information about ethical alternatives 👉 tuta.com/blog/degoogle-list
sigh…
what’s up with “privacy” companies making stupid decisions all of a sudden? at least in tuta’s case it can be read as only misguided, but they should know better at this point. opposing big tech’s social media algortihms and draconian age verification aren’t mutually exclusive.
No reason it couldn’t have been a blanket ban for everyone, adults don’t really fare better in my experience. (source: an adult)
The ban shouldn’t be children specific. They should ban purposely addictive but not necessary additions to products from the market entirely. Making it children specific just means requiring tracking of everyone to determine their age. It’s so unnecessary unless your real goal is tracking everyone.
Sadly children are so disrespected that governments just have to gesture toward them to do shit like this. I really do hope we come out of this whole thing with a good privacy and user respecting web design law. It really is the only way out of this mess, like you say. The DSA in Europe gave me hope because it is a general user respecting design law, but that was before Von der Leyen strongly pushed for more surveilance instead.
What the actual fuck is with the emoji overload like some AI generated post?!
Big tech doesn’t do shit for anybody but themselves, no law can magically fix that. Their dopamine-driven tactics should be banned everywhere for all ages! While not addictive like nicotine in that sense, it’s still using the same reinforcement to create the addiction.
No need for nitter, they tooted the same thing on Mastodon.
