People are too caught up fighting the systems that are being put in place to address these that many completely dismiss the underlying reasoning:
Children are more impressionable and so every entity on the Internet is looking to influence them… people selling products and people pushing ideologies are all targeting children and there is a measurable effect on their mental health.
Yeah, these age verification laws are bullshit and ineffective. They’re pushed by companies who want to control the access to children ($$$) and gather even more data on everyone else.
That doesn’t change the underlying problem that needs to be solved. Children are targets for manipulation by every kind of bad person or group and something needs to be done to address that harm.
yeah, its disgusting that targeted advertising is not illegal. same with targeting senior citizens with falsely proclaiming drugs and cure.
these so called tech companies are just digital pimps for scammers.
the right thing will be obviously to do complete ban on any data collection for profiling as well and lengthy jail time for entire c-suite doing or facilitating targeted ads. but with close to 300 billion yearly revenue at stake they will rather nuke half the earth than let that law pass.
People are too caught up fighting the systems that are being put in place to address these that many completely dismiss the underlying reasoning:
Children are more impressionable and so every entity on the Internet is looking to influence them… people selling products and people pushing ideologies are all targeting children and there is a measurable effect on their mental health.
Yeah, these age verification laws are bullshit and ineffective. They’re pushed by companies who want to control the access to children ($$$) and gather even more data on everyone else.
That doesn’t change the underlying problem that needs to be solved. Children are targets for manipulation by every kind of bad person or group and something needs to be done to address that harm.
yeah, its disgusting that targeted advertising is not illegal. same with targeting senior citizens with falsely proclaiming drugs and cure. these so called tech companies are just digital pimps for scammers.
the right thing will be obviously to do complete ban on any data collection for profiling as well and lengthy jail time for entire c-suite doing or facilitating targeted ads. but with close to 300 billion yearly revenue at stake they will rather nuke half the earth than let that law pass.