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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

If the pushback on social media doesn't get Discord to drop these plans, then I'll just have to delete the app.

Not caving to another app asking for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) only for this same data to be leaked months to years later.

Society will do everything to protect children aside from making better parents.

[–] TheKracken@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Because parenting is hard and they don't need the working masses distracted by kids, they need them slaving away forever.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

The obvious solution is architecting society such that parents have more time to parent while making enough to pay the bills, rather than exporting parenting because they can't afford to miss work due to parenting.

You start having enough of these conversations, and it all eventually points back to capitalism and taxing the rich.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I am also leaving discord, I hated it and the people who use it a lot, but used it to connect to family members. I will find other ways.

This is the same exact cycle I went through with social media, which I also left entirely. I stopped browsing a lot of sites I used to, I took most of my personal info off the internet, and ended a lot of subscriptions.

The internet lately is feeling more and more like making end-of-life plans.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 25 points 13 hours ago

The parenting aspect is a red herring. Nothing about these policies is really to 'protect the children'. The big tech groups have figured out that they can gate-keep ... everything... and require your pii/data to get to it; and that many/most people will give up that data to keep access to their content.

That said, teaching your children about the importance of privacy is becoming as important as teaching them about other harmful online content. "Don't trust a Nigerian prince, let me know if you're being bullied, don't watch porn* and don't scan your face to get on discord"

* until you're 18-ish, at which point go nuts, just know it's all fake.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

But... But... They pinky promise it's all secure, and that they won't hold any of your data! You can't trust a pinky promise? You monster!