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Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn (www.politico.eu)

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

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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The same could be said of sociologists and plumbers. Sociologists know about people and society, plumbers know about plumbing, and computer scientists know about computers.

With a topic of computers and society, like this one, they each have insight on the situation. I would hope getting them in a room together would lead to solutions less harmful than what's been proposed thus far.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Questions about how humans live in society are relevant to people who study this sort of thing.

Just because the internet is accessed via computers which are made of plastic which comes from oil doesn’t mean we should consult oil execs on their opinion. Same with computer scientists.

Also, as you can see by the empirical evidence I cited, CS majors are unambiguously some of the dumbest educated mofos walking around. Literally I’d rather ask the plumbers.